TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Goal Orientation–Based Feedback-Seeking Typology
T2 - Implications for Employee Performance Outcomes
AU - Gong, Yaping
AU - Wang, Mo
AU - Huang, Jia Chi
AU - CHEUNG, Sally S Y
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - In this study, we conceptualized four types of feedback seeking about self and others (i.e., self-positive, self-negative, other-positive, and other-negative) based on their foci (i.e., self or peers) and nature (i.e., positive or negative), as derived from goal orientation theory. In a series of field studies, we found that these four types of feedback seeking were distinct from each other. A learning orientation was positively related to self-negative, self-positive, and other-positive feedback seeking. A performance-approach orientation was positively related to self-positive and other-negative feedback seeking. On further examining the performance impacts of the four types of feedback-seeking, we found that self-negative feedback seeking was positively related to job performance, role clarity, and social integration. Self-positive feedback seeking was negatively related, whereas other-positive feedback seeking was positively related to job performance.
AB - In this study, we conceptualized four types of feedback seeking about self and others (i.e., self-positive, self-negative, other-positive, and other-negative) based on their foci (i.e., self or peers) and nature (i.e., positive or negative), as derived from goal orientation theory. In a series of field studies, we found that these four types of feedback seeking were distinct from each other. A learning orientation was positively related to self-negative, self-positive, and other-positive feedback seeking. A performance-approach orientation was positively related to self-positive and other-negative feedback seeking. On further examining the performance impacts of the four types of feedback-seeking, we found that self-negative feedback seeking was positively related to job performance, role clarity, and social integration. Self-positive feedback seeking was negatively related, whereas other-positive feedback seeking was positively related to job performance.
KW - feedback seeking
KW - goal orientation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014682391&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0149206314551797
DO - 10.1177/0149206314551797
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014682391
SN - 0149-2063
VL - 43
SP - 1234
EP - 1260
JO - Journal of Management
JF - Journal of Management
IS - 4
ER -