EFFECTS OF DISTRIBUTION OF FEEDBACK IN WORK GROUPS

成果类型:
Note
署名作者:
BARR, SH; CONLON, EJ
署名单位:
University of Notre Dame
刊物名称:
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
ISSN/ISSBN:
0001-4273
DOI:
10.2307/256703
发表日期:
1994
页码:
641-655
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摘要:
Using a framework based on equity theory, we examined the joint effects of group feedback, individual feedback, and the distribution of feedback in a group on individuals' intentions to persist at a newly introduced behavior in a laboratory study. We proposed and found that the distribution of feedback was critical. Results were inconsistent with widely posited simple reinforcement or learning effects. Equity comparisons' mediation of group and individual performance feedback is reviewed, differences between responses to feedback received in isolation and in work groups are examined, and implications for the study of feedback in work groups are discussed.