E1 firm evaluate three
top managers (a Japanese president, a Japanese director, and a European director)
and a European finance general manager at the ES1 subsidiary, partially using
evaluation by the subsidiary president. The ES1 and ES2 subsidiaries manage the
local Japanese employees. The headquarters human resources departments are
not involved with the management for them. Largely changing performance
appraisal systems of the parent firm, the ES1 subsidiary introduced its own
performance appraisal system. The ES2 subsidiary made its performance
evaluation system for local employees, not referring to performance appraisal
systems of the E2 firm.