Subordinates' Resistance and Managers' Evaluations of Subordinates' Performance

Subordinates’ Resistance and Managers’ Evaluations of Subordinates’ Performance

The authors explored the validity of two perspectives as to how managers evaluate subordinates who resist downward influence attempts: a uniformly dysfunctional perspective (i.e., managers regard all manifestations of resistance as indicators of ineffective influence and rate subordinates unfavorably when they resist) and a multifunctional perspective (i.e., managers regard some manifestations ...

The Impact of Some MIS Design Variables on Managers' Evaluations of Subordinates' Performances

This article reports the results of an experimental analysis of the impact of MIS design variables on managers" evaluations of subordinates" performances. The experiment involved examining whether different ways of reporting a specific standard cost accounting situation resulted in differences in managers’ evaluations. When actual costs differed significantly from standard, it was found that th...

Handbook for Medical Subordinates

Managers theories of subordinates: A cross-cultural examination of manager perceptions of motivation and appraisal of performance

The present study sought to examine the relationship between managers perceptions of employee motivation and performance appraisal by surveying managers and employees in three distinct cultural regions (North America, Asia, and Latin America) within a single global organization. Three distinct cultural patterns emerged in the theories managers held about their subordinates. While North American...

Effects of multisource feedback and a feedback facilitator on the influence behavior of managers toward subordinates.

The authors compared a feedback workshop with both a no-feedback control group and a comparison group of managers who received a feedback report but no feedback workshop. The multisource feedback was based on ratings of a manager's influence behavior by subordinates, peers, and bosses. Managers in the feedback workshop increased their use of some core influence tactics with subordinates, wherea...