From annual ritual to daily routine: continuous performance management and its consequences for employment security
研究了从年度评估转向持续监控的绩效管理趋势，基于对专业软件和咨询顾问的分析，指出这种变化旨在控制解雇，尤其是在英国用于促使年长员工退休。
Management control in the workplace ultimately rests on the power to dismiss employees who are deemed to be underperforming. This article examines a more recent trend away from annual appraisal and towards continual monitoring and review. Based on a study of specialist proprietary performance management ( PM ) software packages and interviews with the consultants who market them, the contention is that these developments are driven by the need to control dismissal. In the case of the UK , we argue that the adoption of PM systems needs to be understood as a means of ‘retiring’ older workers who might otherwise remain in employment. The systems studied here draw on a range of data, allowing managers considerable discretion in how this evidence is used. Specifically, by dispensing with explicit ranking methods, these systems suggest a new employer confidence in the use of subjective evidence.