Linking Feedback Quality and Goal Orientation to Feedback Seeking and Job Performance

Human Performance

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-178

  Whitaker, Brian G ^a   Levy, Paul ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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EID: 84859918910     PISSN: 08959285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08959285.2012.658927     Document Type: Article

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