Feedback environment: A meta-analysis

Feedback environment reflects the perceptions of the contextual, day-to-day feedback process within supervisor-subordinate relationships. Here, we present a comprehensive meta-analysis of the feedback environment literature. On the basis of K = 112 independent samples, representing N = 31,089 workers, results suggest that feedback environment is positively related to feedback orientation (r(c) = .42), leader-member exchange (r(c) = .81), supervisor-rated performance (r(c) = .29), and negatively related to burnout (r(c) = -.51). Moreover, we present multiple regression and relative weights analyses to consider the unique and incremental predictive power of feedback environment above and beyond two related constructs: leader-member exchange and feedback orientation. The results suggest that the feedback environment explains unique variance in several correlates and is a particularly important predictor of (lower) burnout.