Effects on Feedback Seeking via Error Mastery Orientation – A Randomized Mini-Intervention to Improve Leaders’ Responses to Errors

This preregistration was completed prior to accessing outcome data. This study describes a randomized controlled field experiment testing whether a brief digital mini-intervention can improve leaders’ responses to errors by increasing Error Mastery Orientation (EMO) and, in turn, feedback seeking behavior. The model proposes that EMO mediates the effect of the intervention on feedback seeking, and that leadership self-efficacy moderates the intervention’s effect on EMO. The study uses a pretest–posttest design with five daily measurements during the intervention week to capture short-term trajectories. Primary confirmatory analyses focus on between-person change from baseline to post-test, while daily diary data will be analyzed separately using multilevel models for exploratory process insights.