{
  "title": "Corrective feedback: when leaders divert attention away from the work",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-feedback-correctif-attention-tache-neuchatel-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-08-06",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Pointing out a deviation is not enough to improve performance. Research invites us to examine what a manager’s feedback actually directs the recipient’s attention towards.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Avraham N."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The goal gives feedback a reference point",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that every personal judgement should simply be replaced with a technical instruction."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "The meta-analysis brings together heterogeneous tasks and contexts; it does not provide a validated script for a watch manufacturer or a microelectronics workshop."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a Neuchâtel team working in microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics, an exercise associated with the programme could involve documenting corrective feedback on the same type of deviation over four weeks."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "DeNisi",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Psychological Bulletin"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    }
  ],
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