2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The effects of negative feedback on job attitudes and interpersonal relationships during a job hunting period and after entering a company

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22730488
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Social psychology
Research Institution	Aoyama Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	SHIGEMASU Eri 青山学院大学, 教育人間科学部, 准教授 (80410380)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	対人コミュニケーション / ネガティブフィードバック / 報酬‐懲罰行動 / 上司‐部下関係 / 失敗学習動機 / 自己評価動機 / 組織文化
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of work related negative feedback (NF) on the recipients. Two experiments simulating job interviews and a panel survey of university students during a job hunting period and after entering a company were conducted. The effects of NF were moderated by factors such as the ways of expression, senders and recipients’ individual characteristics, and organizational cultures of their workplace. In addition, the survey results showed that a supervisor’s NF to new employees slightly deteriorated their self-evaluation on abilities and their work values, whereas the effects of an individual NF experience on the employees were half positive and half negative.

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