TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– While it is acknowledged that societal context matters for employee expectations on training and development, the complexity of this relationship is still little explored. This paper aims to study which higher‐order principles employees of a German and Russian company use to justify their views on beneficial training and development in order to identify how evaluative repertoires differ between the two settings.Design/methodology/approach– Building on interviews conducted in two professional services firms in Germany and Russia, the paper identifies patterns in the repertoire that employees use for evaluating training and development activities at each research site.Findings– The findings reveal that employees working for the German company predominantly use the industrial principle for justifying their views on training and development. In contrast, employees in the Russian company apply market, industrial and domestic principles with a tendency for long‐term employees more often to justify their views using the market principle.Research limitations/implications– The case comparison points to variations in the evaluative repertoire that the paper explains with the societal context of Germany and Russia. By examining evaluative repertoires, companies learn what employees expect from training and development.Originality/value– Applying convention theory, the paper introduces a promising, but so far neglected approach for linking employee expectations with societal context and for comparing boundaries between people across different settings.
VL  - 40
IS  - 5
SN  - 0048-3486
DO  - 10.1108/00483481111154450
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/00483481111154450
AU  - Pernkopf‐Konhäusner Katharina
AU  - Brandl Julia
ED  - Dorien Kooij
ED  - Jaap Paauwe
ED  - Karin Sanders
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Variations in evaluative repertoires: Comparing employee perspectives on training and development in Germany and Russia
T2  - Personnel Review
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 589
EP  - 606
Y2  - 2024/05/09
ER  -