Feedback and organizations: Feedback is good, feedback-friendly culture is better

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 260-268

  Baker, Amanda ^a   Perreault, Dominique ^a   Reid, Alain ^b   Blanchard, Céline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SPB Organizational Psychology Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

feedback; feedback friendly culture; psychological safety and trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890610750     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034691     Document Type: Article

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