A Self-Motives Perspective on Feedback-Seeking Behavior: Linking Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology Research

By Frederick Anseel, Filip Lievens, P. Levy. 2007

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Both the feedback-seeking literature in management and the self-motives domain in social psychology have focused on how motives affect the way in which people acquire information for self-evaluation purposes. Despite apparent conceptual similarities, the implications of research in these domains have not been fully integrated. This paper aims to link research on feedback-seeking behavior to recent theoretical developments in social psychology. First, the current perspective in management on feedback-seeking motives is depicted. Second, a well-established framework of self-motives in social psychology is introduced. Third, similarities and differences between these two motivational perspectives are discussed and a first step towards integration is proposed. Fourth, it is demonstrated how a self-motives perspective might guide future research on six key issues. Self-motives might be useful in identifying new antecedents of feedback-seeking behavior, resolving inconsistencies in the feedback-seeking literature, understanding the interplay among feedback-seeking motives, integrating feedback-seeking and feedback reactions research, examining attitudinal outcomes of feedback-seeking motives, and enhancing the feed-back performance relationship.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Filip Lievens
2. P. Sackett
3. Frederick Anseel
4. Greet van Hoye
5. A. Saks

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Frederick Anseel
2. Filip Lievens
3. P. Sackett
4. W. Shen
5. Greet van Hoye
6. Reeshad S. Dalal
7. A. Saks
8. He Peng

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Filip Lievens
2. P. Sackett
3. Frederick Anseel
4. W. Shen
5. Christopher M. Berry
6. He Peng
7. Greet van Hoye
8. Nichelle C. Carpenter

Citations in the corpus

• How Are We Doing After 30 Years? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Feedback-Seeking Behavior (2015, result): “The resulting set of studies may be smaller than those that have been discussed in previous qualitative reviews (e.g., Anseel et al., 2007; Ashford et al., 2003).”
• Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews of Management Research (2021, unknown): “For instance, for topics at the intersection of management and psychology, the review articles I analyzed often drew on PsycINFO in addition to other multipublisher databases (e.g., Anseel et al., 2007; Atewologun et al., 2017; Xiao & Nicholson, 2013).”