The role of organizational insiders' developmental feedback and proactive personality on newcomers' performance: an interactionist perspective. Academic Article

abstract

• Drawing from an interactionist approach and feedback research, we examine the role of developmental feedback and proactive personality on newcomer task performance and helping behavior. Data were collected from 2 high-tech joint-ventures within the information technology and manufacturing industries located in Shanghai, China. Results based on 151 newcomer-manager dyads showed that supervisor developmental feedback (SDF) positively related to newcomer helping behavior and that SDF and coworker developmental feedback interactively predicted newcomer task performance. We also found differential moderating effects of proactive personality: SDF more strongly related to helping behavior when proactive personality was lower; conversely, coworker developmental feedback more strongly related to helping behavior when proactive personality was higher.

authors

• Boswell, Wendy

published proceedings

• J Appl Psychol

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Li, N., Harris, T. B., Boswell, W. R., & Xie, Z.

citation count

• 116

complete list of authors

• Li, Ning||Harris, T Brad||Boswell, Wendy R||Xie, Zhitao

publication date

• November 2011

publisher

• American Psychological Association (APA)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Applied Psychology  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• China
• Employee Performance Appraisal
• Feedback, Psychological
• Female
• Humans
• Industry
• Informatics
• Interpersonal Relations
• Leadership
• Male
• Motivation
• Organizational Culture
• Organizational Objectives
• Personality
• Personnel Management
• Workplace

PubMed Central ID

• 21688879

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1037/a0024029

start page

• 1317

end page

• 1327

volume

• 96

issue

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1037%2Fa0024029