‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure

This paper offers a more nuanced view of learning that provides an integrated conceptual model for understanding individual learning from failure.

Managers in organizations should think carefully about how ambiguity of responsibility is likely to play out in their context, utilizing strategies such as job design to help to limit this effect.

Upfront planning might remove possible barriers that would increase ambiguity of responsibility. Feedback could influence these ambiguity perceptions as well.

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