Feedback phobia? Why employees do not want to give or receive performance feedback

Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 168-186

  Cleveland, Jeanette N ^a   Lim, Audrey S ^a   Murphy, Kevin R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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