The subordinate's side of the story: The practice of contextual components in constructive criticism

In contrast to the prior constructive criticism literature that has focused on the attributional perspective, we investigate how high context communicators practice contextual cues. Using a multiple-case, inductive study of subordinates' norm violation happened in Chinese organizations, the process model of constructive criticism presents how high context communicators manipulate the contextual components: people evaluate the quality and degree of constructive criticism via the mix of message and spatial context, determine whether to accept it at once by relationship context; if not, people spend time to get self-introspection to accept it.