Negative feedback and employee job performance: Moderating role of the big five

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1735-1744

  Guo, Yun ^a   Zhang, Yanhong ^b   Liao, Jianqiao ^c   Guo, Xinwei ^a   Liu, Jintao ^a   Xue, Xiang ^a   Li, Cunchao ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Zhang, Yumei ^a  

^a BINZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Big five personality traits; Conscientiousness; Emotional stability; Employee job performance; Extraversion; Negative feedback; Openness to experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHINA; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMPLOYEE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK;

EID: 85037039304     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.6478     Document Type: Article

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