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ProfessorCeliaMoore

Business School

Professor of Organisational Behaviour
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5400c.moore Website CV

 
 
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287ABusiness School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Oc:2015:10.1037/a0038138,
author = {Oc, B and Bashshur, MR and Moore, C},
doi = {10.1037/a0038138},
journal = {Journal of Applied Psychology},
pages = {450--463},
title = {Speaking truth to power: The effect of candid feedback on how individuals with power allocate resources},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038138},
volume = {100},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Subordinates are often seen as impotent, able to react to but not affect how powerholders treat them. Instead, we conceptualize subordinate feedback as an important trigger of powerholders’ behavioral self-regulation and explore subordinates’ reciprocal influence on how powerholders allocate resources to them over time. In 2 experiments using a multiparty, multiround dictator game paradigm, we found that when subordinates provided candid feedback about whether they found prior allocations to be fair or unfair, powerholders regulated how self-interested their allocations were over time. However, when subordinates provided compliant feedback about powerholders’ prior allocation decisions (offered consistently positive feedback, regardless of the powerholders’ prior allocation), those powerholders made increasingly self-interested allocations over time. In addition, we showed that guilt partially mediates this relationship: powerholders feel more guilty after receiving negative feedback about an allocation, subsequently leading to a less self-interested allocation, whereas they feel less guilty after receiving positive feedback about an allocation, subsequently taking more for themselves. Our findings integrate the literature on upward feedback with theory about moral self-regulation to support the idea that subordinates are an important source of influence over those who hold power over them.
AU  - Oc,B
AU  - Bashshur,MR
AU  - Moore,C
DO  - 10.1037/a0038138
EP  - 463
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 0021-9010
SP  - 450
TI  - Speaking truth to power: The effect of candid feedback on how individuals with power allocate resources
T2  - Journal of Applied Psychology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038138
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000350553700010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0038138
VL  - 100
ER  -
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