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Supportive Feedback Environments Can Mend Broken Performance Management Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Jason J. Dahling*
Affiliation:
The College of New Jersey
Alison L. O’Malley
Affiliation:
Butler University
*
E-mail: dahling@tcnj.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628

Abstract

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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