The performance of local employees is evaluated by local managers and then by
Japanese vice presidents or presidents at the Japanese subsidiaries. Although
some of the Japanese firms we researched tried to introduce performance appraisal
systems common to all employees worldwide, all of the seven researched Japanese
firms at this time do not have the common worldwide performance appraisal system.
Each subsidiary makes its own performance appraisal system, loosely based on the
performance appraisal system of their parent firms.