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The Impact of Information Technology on Performance Evaluation

     

Resumen

Interests in the influence of innovations in Information Technology (IT) in the areas of organizational structure and management practices have assumed global significance. Due to the globalization of products and services, there is a need and desire to learn about the relationships between managerial behavior and technology implementation throughout different countries of the world.  This paper examines the influence of technology on managers? jobs and performance evaluations (PE) in four Asian countries. The study finds that managers in these developing countries recognize the influence of technology in their jobs and performance evaluations in varying degrees based on their receptiveness to technology. High technology oriented managers recognize a greater influence of technology than do the medium and low technology oriented managers. Based on their uses of IT, managers perceive IT implementation influence their performance evaluations in general. They see limited influence of IT on financial performance measures. Keywords: Information technology, post- modernism, process theory, performance evaluation