Culture and Performance Appraisal Processes and Practices: Critical Insights from the South African Public Sector

Tyanai Masiya – Dr Tyanai Masiya is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Management and Administration, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria. Dr Masiya’s areas of interest include public service delivery, municipal management and citizenship and democracy. He has written extensively around issues of public service delivery. Of specific interest to his research work are institutional innovations that enhance public participation for improved service delivery.. 2 University of Pretoria, Faculty of Economic

Herbert Kanengoni – Associate Professor and Industrial Psychologist at the Department of HRM, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria. He received a PhD degree in Industrial Psychology in 2015, and joined the University of Pretoria as Faculty member in 2015. Programme Manager of Master of Commerce in Industrial Psychology University of Pretoria. His career highlights in research and academic leadership include positions at various universities in South Africa and at Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands as a visiting scholar. His is involved in expert panels dealing with people management matters. His research interests are broadly premised on positive organisational behaviour, mainly how employees use their psychological resources to persevere in stressful work environments and complexities. He is a publisher of numerous primary articles and regularly presents papers at international conferences.