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"In every basic intro-to-management class, in the part about giving feedback, you're taught to praise in public and criticize in private," said Sandy Kristin Piderit, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. "But when [supervisors] are under pressure, they often reverse that principle, and praise only comes once a year in an annual appraisal meeting when no one else gets to hear it."