Superior to Subordinate Feedback: Effectiveness & Techniques for Improvement

Abstract

The ability to properly receive feedback is a key part of bettering oneself and obtaining success in whatever endeavor you embark on in life. Whether it is on a specific task, or larger goals, feedback acceptance is crucial to maintaining accelerated progress. But there are many factors which play a part of the feedback process. Who is it delivered by? How did they deliver it? Does a difference in status between the person delivering the feedback vs. the recipient effect effectiveness? What are the personality characteristics of the person receiving the feedback? Do how they receive feedback have a dramatic effect of the delivery of future feedback? These are all crucial questions that need further exploration to help provide clarity to the feedback process. This is an interdisciplinary study across multiple fields to find universal commonalities within the feedback process.