Managerial Feedback, Associate Performance, and Eleven Positive Feedback Rules

Feedback and positive feedback stabilizability and holdability

Consider the following problem. Given a discrete-time linear system, find, if possible, linear state-feedback control laws such that under these laws all trajectories originating in the non-negative orthant of the state space remain non-negative while asymptotically deteriorating to the origin. This problem is called feedback stabilizability-holdability problem (FSH). If, in addition, the requi...

Positive feedback

Positive feedback is a process that occurs in a feedback loop in which the effects of a small disturbance on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation.[1] That is, A produces more of B which in turn produces more of A.[2] In contrast, a system in which the results of a change act to reduce or counteract it has negative feedback.[1][3] Mathematically, positive feedback is...

1 Learning from Performance Feedback : Performance Information , Aspiration Levels and Managerial Priorities ( forthcoming in Public Administration )

While performance management is increasingly widespread, we still know little about how performance information generates learning and affects organizational responses. Recent work on performance information and learning in private business organizations, however, suggests that perceived negative performance triggers important strategic responses related to problem identification, search, and c...

Running Head: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTS AND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK The Influence of Managerial Accounts on Employees’ Reactions to Negative Feedback

Physiological Positive Feedback Mechanisms

In positive feedback mechanisms, the response to a stimulus does not stop or reverse it but instead keeps the sequence of events going up. At first glance, this would appear to be a counter to the principle of homeostasis, since a positive feedback loop has no obvious means of stopping. Not surprisingly, therefore, the positive feedback is less common in nature than the negative one. A positive...