A structured literature review on negative performance feedback

Abstract

The scholarship is facing the advent where studies reporting on the effects of negative performance feedback are increasingly reporting inconsistent outcomes. Through this structured literature review, the bases of the opposing position in the scholarship were identified. The need to report in relative terms is emphasised as the basis for the need to avoid aggregation approach. The future research avenues centred on the need for field-based research designs that are primarily intended to address the need for specificity of boundary conditions and decision space within which research on negative performance feedback report is emphasised.