Manipulations of outcome favorability and outcome fairness are frequently treated as interchangeable, and assumed to have redundant effects. Perceptions of outcome fairness and outcome favorability are similarly presumed to have common antecedents and consequences. This research tested the empirical foundation of these assumptions by conducting a meta-analytic review of the justice literature (...

Supervisors’ perceptions of how fairly they are treated by their own supervisors can influence their subordinates’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. We present a moderated mediation model that demonstrates how workgroup structure can enhance or constrain these effects. Results show supervisors’ perceptions of the fairness of the interactional treatment they receive relate to their subordina...

We test predictions from theories of tournament, fairness and tastes for skewness about the effects of pay spread and skewness on employee effort and firm productivity. The data come from the population of 6,501 medium-to-large sized Danish private sector firms matched with all their employees during 1992-95. Potential simultaneity problems are addressed by instrumental variables provided by in...

This study uses data from married women in 30 nations to examine justice processes involving perceptions of fairness of the division of household labor and satisfaction with family life. Relative deprivation theory suggests that national context—operationalized here as nation-level gender equity—might serve as a comparative referent used by married women when making determinations of the fairne...

Fairness is a notion of universal importance – whether we play, compete or trade with each other, we tend to strive for situations in which everyone feels treated fairly. Conversely, lack of fairness burdens human relations, producing tension, discontent and frustration. But what exactly is fairness? How can it be created, protected and enforced? What, apart from our innate perceptions, signals...

In this article, we describe the influence of violations of community standards of fairness (Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler, 1986a) on subsequent ethical decision-making and emotions. Across two studies, we manipulated explanations for a common action, and we find that explanations that violate community standards of fairness (e.g., by taking advantage of an in crease in market power) lead to gr...

The present study investigated the role of applicant personality in relation to applicant procedural and distributive justice perceptions after being informed of an organization’s reject/accept selection decision. A sample of 503 students completed a selection test, believing the results would be used to make initial selection decisions for an organization recruiting from the university. Partic...

This is an experimental study of fairness perceptions of different procedures for collective decision-making. Procedures that are equivalent in a materialistic sense are viewed differently by subjects in terms of fairness. More than 60% of our subjects belong to one of two “types”: “rational” types who have a materialistic view of procedures, and “emotional” types who exhibit a systematic fairn...

When it comes to fairness in modern U.S. insurance and reinsurance arbitrations (hereafter “insurance arbitrations”), perception is arguably as important as reality. If the parties do not perceive the process to be fair, they will not embrace arbitration as an alternative to litigation regardless of whether it is cheaper or faster. Central to the parties’ perception of fairness is the compositi...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate interrelationships among perceived service fairness, emotions and behavioral intentions in a restaurant context. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from two casual dining restaurants in the USA. The data were analyzed following Anderson and Gerbing’s two-step approach, utilizing both a measurement model and a subsequent structural model. F...