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Goal-Related Feedback Seeking, Receiving Goal-Related Feedback, and Internal Work Motivation: A Two-Sample Mediation
1Management and Organizational Consultant, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Purpose:
No known published empirical study in the social work literature has investigated goal-related feedback seeking's direct or indirect impact on human service case managers. Consequently, this field survey study sought to fill this gap in the extant literature using two different samples of county-based human service case managers across the state of New York.
Method:
Four hundred and sixty-three public assistance and 349 child welfare case managers were surveyed in order to test goal-related feedback seeking's main and receiving goal-related feedback's mediating effect on internal work motivation.
Results:
Data from each sample confirmed both types of effects.
Discussion:
As the first to uncover these two sets of findings, this field survey study makes a unique contribution to the social work and feedback seeking literatures.
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