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Front Psychol . 2017 Jun 7;8:920. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00920 Leaders’ Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting Employees’ Feedback-Seeking Behavior Xiyang Zhang Xiyang Zhang 1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Find ... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.621 | 0.848 | ["education", "leadership", "management", "economy"] | 512 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:33.997480 | [
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nal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. PMC Copyright notice PMCID: PMC5461250 PMID: 28638357 Abstract Feedback helps employees to evaluate and improve their performance, but there have been relatively few emp... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.618 | 0.842 | ["leadership", "networking", "philosophy"] | 512 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.004289 | [
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ate and high power distance orientation, but not for those with low power distance orientation. The mediation hypothesis was also supported. Keywords: delegation, psychological empowerment, feedback seeking, power distance, positive behavior Introduction According to a survey from SHL, a US psychometric testing company... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.478 | 0.848 | ["management", "family"] | 511 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.004771 | [
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stance cultures such as Hong Kong (24%) and India (20%) ( The Future Foundation, 2004 ). Clearly, people need information about their performance, but most employees do not receive timely feedback on their work. Nowadays more and more people actively seek feedback instead of waiting passively to receive it. Leaders are... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.356 | 0.864 | ["philosophy", "leadership", "war_conflict"] | 512 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.007003 | [
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that a leader has certain characteristics are important determinants of tendency to seek feedback from supervisors. Qian et al. ( in press ) proposed that authentic leadership promotes the seeking of feedback by influencing employees’ beliefs about the value of feedback and cost of seeking it. Authentic leadership also... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.434 | 0.826 | ["leadership"] | 425 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.007821 | [
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r skills and expertise ( Uhl-Bien et al., 2000 ). As yet, however, there is a lack of empirical evidence that delegation is associated with the seeking of feedback. In this study, therefore, we tested the hypothesis that delegation would increase employees’ feedback seeking from supervisors. We also set out to examine ... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.521 | 0.85 | ["motivation", "education"] | 511 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.008338 | [
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empowerment plays an important role in the feedback-seeking process (e.g., Chen Z. et al., 2007 ; Huang, 2012 ). In this study, we have responded to this call by examining psychological empowerment as a potential mediator of the relation between delegation and feedback seeking. We hypothesized that psychological empowe... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.597 | 0.686 | ["networking", "education"] | 477 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.008437 | [
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nd at cultural level (e.g., Kirkman et al., 2009 ). It is considered to have an important influence on reactions to leaders ( Kirkman et al., 2009 ). It is not surprising, therefore, that many studies have attempted to identify how power distance moderates the influence of leadership behaviors and managerial techniques... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.451 | 0.718 | ["leadership", "management", "education"] | 499 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.008536 | [
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mpact of delegation on feedback-seeking behavior. As Bass said, “delegation implies that one has been empowered by one’s superior to take responsibility for certain activities” ( Bass, 1990 , p. 437). Delegation is closely related to empowerment. Empowerment is a motivational concept related to self-efficacy. People ex... | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5461250/ | Leaders' Behaviors Matter: The Role of Delegation in Promoting ... | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | public_domain | false | 0.646 | 0.84 | ["motivation"] | 488 | Delegation and Accountability Leadership | topic | 2026-03-29T19:42:34.008583 | [
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