The relationships among a number of appraisal, firm, and personal attributes and general confidence appraisals were examined in a sample of 103 Australian middle-managers. Significant correlations were found between confidence and existence of appraisal schemes and between confidence and frequency of appraisals. The correlations between self-esteem of subjects and confidence and between internal control and confidence were both significant. The correlations with firm size, structure, reward system, and climate were all nonsignificant.
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