Psychology in management accounting and control research: an overview of the recent literature

LM Wibbeke, M Lachmann - Journal of Management Control, 2020 - Springer
For decades, management accounting and control (MAC) researchers have employed a
diverse set of source disciplines to predict and examine behavior, and psychology is among …

Feedback with feeling? How emotional language in feedback affects individual performance

D Erickson, DK Holderness Jr, KJ Olsen… - Accounting …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our study examines the influence of manager emotion on the effectiveness of feedback in
motivating performance. Feedback Intervention Theory (Kluger & DeNisi, 1996) suggests …

Exploring the effects of negative supervisory feedback on creativity among research and development personnel: challenge or threat?

H Li, J Zhang, MY Bhutto, M Ertz, J Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Supervisory feedback to stimulate research and development (R&D) employee creativity is a
management issue that concerns scholars and practitioners. However, there are …

Avoiding the scenario of “The farmer and the snake”: the dark side of servant leadership and an intervention mechanism

R Gao, B Liu - Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to reveal the potential dark side of servant leadership by exploring
its differential impact on followers with varying degrees of Machiavellianism and to uncover …

Improving auditor performance evaluations: The impact on self‐esteem, professional skepticism, and audit quality

LH Blix, LC Chui, BJ Pike… - Journal of Corporate …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In public accounting, the performance evaluation process involves assessing and
communicating feedback to employees. In the financial statement audit setting, in particular …

Feeling rewarded and entitled to be served: Understanding the influence of self-versus regular checkout on customer loyalty

F Nusrat, Y Huang - Journal of business research, 2024 - Elsevier
As the popularity of self-checkout systems has been increasing in recent years, it is
imperative to understand how their usage impacts customers' shopping experiences. This …

Testing the effect of incentives on effort intensity using real-effort tasks

W Choi, J Clark, A Presslee - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We identify seven factors researchers should consider when designing a real-effort task to
capture effort intensity (ie, an effort-intensive task):(1) intrinsic motivation;(2) task-specific …

Will someone be checking my work? The effect of psychological entitlement and the expectation of being monitored on task performance and misreporting

DK Holderness Jr, KJ Olsen, TA Thornock… - Accounting …, 2022 - publications.aaahq.org
Psychological entitlement is a sense that one deserves more than others and is correlated
with a host of negative workplace behaviors. Because entitled individuals have a strong …

Target setting with compensation discretion: How are ex ante targets affected when superiors have ex post discretion?

R Martin, T Thomas - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Target setting by superiors and their discretion in compensation decisions are important
interrelated pieces in an organization's control system. Thus, we examine how these …

Is more always better? An experimental examination of the effects of feedback frequency, narcissistic oversensitivity, and growth mindset on performance accuracy

JA Johnson, K Kelly, W Olczak - Contemporary Accounting …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The provision of more frequent feedback to employees is increasing, although prior research
has found mixed results as to the effect of increased feedback frequency on employee …