This article provides a systematic attempt to analyze the effects of performance appraisals, here conceptualized as tools for executing disciplinary power, and how the agency of employees is shaped. The article demonstrates how agency is enrolled by a broad set of disciplinary technologies aimed...

Starting from the assumptions of determinacy and identity, conventional approaches reduce social and organizational action to exogenous technological competitive and institutional contingencies and to endogenous necessities of functional unity, ascribing to the discursive aspects of action a...