Feedback

Processin which the effect oroutputof anactionis 'returned' (fed-back) to modify the next action. Feedback is essential to the working and survival of all regulatory mechanisms found throughout living and non-living nature, and in man-made systems such aseducationsystemandeconomy. As a two-wayflow, feedback isinherentto all interactions, whether human-to-human, human-to-machine, or machine-to-machine. In anorganizationalcontext, feedback is theinformationsent to anentity(individual or a group) about itspriorbehaviorso that the entity mayadjustitscurrentand future behavior toachievethe desiredresult.