The Feedback-Seeker In His Social Labyrinth: The Mediating Role Of Goals And Cooperative Norms In Linking Empowering Leadership To Feedback-Seeking Behavior

This paper examined how feedback seekers' and targets' characteristics affect how feedback-seeking acts are evaluated. The authors studied how two aspects of the pattern of feedback seeking, the sign of the feedback sought (positive versus negative) and the frequency of seeking (frequent versus infrequent) interact with the performance history of the feedback seeker to affect impressions formed by feedback targets. In addition, they assessed how the target characteristic of implicit person theory affects feedback-seeking attributions and how this relationship is shaped by the pattern of seeking. Feedback-seeking behavior, "The conscious devotion of effort toward determining the correctness and adequacy of behavior for attaining valued end states", is an important employee resource in today's organizations.