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Self-assessment research has continued to search for those factors that increase self-other rating agreement. The current field study investigated the feedback- seeking strategies (i.e., monitoring and inquiry) used by 125 employees to obtain performance information, as well as the relationship between feedback-seeking strategy use and self- supervisor performance-rating agreement. Results indicate that the frequency of monitoring reported by employees significantly moderated the relationship between self and supervisor ratings of performance. Individuals who reported higher levels of feedback seeking through monitoring were more likely to have self-assessments that were congruent with their supervisors' ratings of performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study concerned the joint effects of the richness of the feedback environment and task complexity on the development of goals, information search strategies, and performance improvement. A decision-making experiment found interactive effects of feedback and complexity on the number of personal goals, information search, and performance improvement. Further, goals and information search mediated the effect of feedback and complexity on performance over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]