The impact of future time orientation on employees' feedback-seeking behavior from supervisors and co-workers: The mediating role of psychological ownership. (10th February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Qian, Jing; Lin, Xiaosong; Han, Zhuo R.; Tian, Bowen; Chen, George Z.; Wang, Haiwan
• Is Part Of: Journal of management & organization. Volume 21:Number 3(2015)
• Page Start: 336
• Page End: 349
• Publication Date: 2015-02-10
• Subjects: feedback seeking, -- feedback source, -- future time orientation, -- psychological ownership; Management -- Periodicals; 658.005
• DOI: 10.1017/jmo.2014.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1833-3672

Abstract

Abstract: Future time orientation is essential if an employee is to be motivated to conduct activities that generate long-term rather than immediate gain, and which may involve risk. Given that feedback seeking requires the employee to slow down and seek input, it is surprising that little is known about the relationship between future time orientation and feedback seeking. Drawing upon psychological ownership theory and construal-level theory, we hypothesized a positive influence of future time orientation on feedback seeking from various sources (i.e., supervisors and co-workers). We also hypothesized job-based psychological ownership as a newly identified motive of feedback seeking and employed it to explain how future time orientation exerts influences. Tested with data from a sample of 228 subordinate–supervisor dyads from China, the results revealed that (1) future time orientation was positively related to feedback seeking from supervisors and co-workers and (2) job-based psychology ownership mediated the relationship between future time orientation and feedback seeking.