Research Summary
Research Summary
Personal Development and Interpersonal Feedback
Description
Enabling individual development and learning are key to enabling organizational success as well as employee satisfaction and engagement. Many organizational approaches to employee development visualize feedback processes as mechanisms for illuminating individual development needs--a means of overcoming poor self-awareness. This line of study is grounded in the notion that interpersonal feedback is an exercise in information transfer.
My work in this domain embraces an alternate view of feedback and personal development, recognizing that these interpersonal processes are also stylized relational interactions. My work illlustrates the ways in which interpersonal feedback can trigger the reforming of social networks as recipients seek to cultivate a more hospitable relational clime. My work also explores the ways in which the developmental nature of feedback is shaped by relational assessments and attributions. More recent work in this domain leverages both qualitative and quantitative insights from the field to examine the relational mechanisms that enable indivdual career growth.
My work in this domain embraces an alternate view of feedback and personal development, recognizing that these interpersonal processes are also stylized relational interactions. My work illlustrates the ways in which interpersonal feedback can trigger the reforming of social networks as recipients seek to cultivate a more hospitable relational clime. My work also explores the ways in which the developmental nature of feedback is shaped by relational assessments and attributions. More recent work in this domain leverages both qualitative and quantitative insights from the field to examine the relational mechanisms that enable indivdual career growth.