Assignment 1 A Week 5- Short Answer Question Is 360-degree feedback little more than a passing fad? Over many decades, people have continually provided feedback to others about their behaviour and productivity, while organizations use feedback to monitor, control and make changes to improve organizational development. In addition, for organizations to better compete in the complexities and frequently changed environment, many organizations have restructured their traditional hierarchical structure to a flexible, flattened, and horizontal structure (Hancock …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

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