Exploring the dimensionality of positive and negative performance feedback

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 326-344

  Geddes, Deanna ^a   Linnehan, Frank ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee evaluation; Information processing; Multidimensionality; Negative feedback; Organizational communication; Perceptions; Performance appraisal; Performance feedback; Positive feedback; Superior subordinate communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038914669     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463379609370021     Document Type: Article

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