Performance improvement efforts in response to negative feedback: the roles of source power and recipient self-esteem

This study investigates dimensions of supervisor power and recipient self-e steem as predictors of performance improvement efforts following negative p erformance feedback. The study employs two stimuli (recall and scenario) ad ministered at two different points in time with full-time employees. Result s point to the importance of differentiating the types of supervisor power and assessing the extent to which different types of power moderate the sel f-esteem - performance improvement relationship. The results and their impl ications are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.