Long before the invention of electrical amplifiers and generators, feedback was used widely in mechanical control devices, including the governor that was devised by James Watt in 1784 to stabilize the speed of a steam engine. The theory of such a...

Feedback Feedback is the return of information about the result of a process, activity, or experience, usually relating to an individual's performance within a company. Feedback can be upward or downward in the organizational structure. Upward...

A term borrowed from the field of cybernetics where it has a more precise technical meaning. In education feedback normally refers to the process of giving information about results to the students and their teachers with a view to improving...

n. The process by which a speaker is able to hear her/his own speech through the air and through the bones of the head. Feedback is essential in maintaining proper control over...

In organizational context, feedback is a process of sharing observations, concerns and suggestions with the other person with an intention of improving his/her performance as an individual. Feedback has to be bi-directional so that continuous...

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Obama's speech last night in midtown was sort of a litmus test. Nalini Datwani, a conservatively dressed 55-year-old homemaker from Inglecliff, N.J. told me "that really got to me," when Obama relayed a story about Bobby Kennedy visiting poor children in the 1960s. As an...

Our October issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine is devoted almost entirely to the impact of environmental issues on our readers' investments and money management. For example, we identify 30 companies whose stocks should blossom from efforts to combat global warming, high energy costs and...