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Feedback: Is It All Useful?

Philip L. Quaglieri

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

ISSN: 0143-7739

Article publication date: 1 April 1980

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Abstract

Among psychologists one of the more frequently observed phenomena is the enhancing effect of feedback on performance and learning (for a review see Annett. It is believed that the term feedback was originally coined by electrical engineers and was defined as a regenerative process. For the purposes of the present discussion however, feedback refers to the process whereby information about the effectiveness of an individual's actions or responses to a task is reported to that individual. Although it is recognized that an individual's environment is crammed with information about many things, only information that the individual accepts is considered feedback.

Citation

Quaglieri, P.L. (1980), "Feedback: Is It All Useful?", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 13-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053470

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1980, MCB UP Limited

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