Feedback orientation, satisfaction with system feedback reporting and budget performance

Journal title MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Author/s Manuela S. Macinati, Marco Giovanni Rizzo
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/3
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 179-200 File size 132 KB
DOI 10.3280/MACO2024-003009
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This paper examines how feedback orientation affects budgetary performance, and how this relationship operates indirectly via feedback satisfaction. Hypothe-ses were tested using data collected by a survey administered to 70 budget holders, and a structural equation model with partial least square approach was employed for statistical computation. The results indicate that feedback orientation positive-ly affects feedback satisfaction and budgetary performance. In addition, feed-back satisfaction has a direct influence on budgetary performance and mediates the feedback orientation-budgetary performance relationship. These findings are discussed in relation to theory and their managerial implications. In particular, or-ganizations that aim at ensuring the success of the feedback process should sup-port the emergence of employees’ feedback receptivity by workplace interventions that contribute to the emergence of positive feelings of satisfaction with feedback information which, in turn, positively impact on budgetary performance.

Keywords: Feedback orientation, Satisfaction with feedback, Budgetary perfor-mance, Reporting system.

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Manuela S. Macinati, Marco Giovanni Rizzo, Orientamento al feedback, soddisfazione rispetto al feedback del sistema reporting e performance di budget in "MANAGEMENT CONTROL" 3/2024, pp 179-200, DOI: 10.3280/MACO2024-003009