The Apparent Locus of Managerial Decision Making and Perceptions of Fairness in Public Personnel Management.
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| Title: | The Apparent Locus of Managerial Decision Making and Perceptions of Fairness in Public Personnel Management. |
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| Authors: | Stritch, Justin M.1 jstritch@asu.edu, Pedersen, Mogens Jin2,3 |
| Source: | Public Personnel Management. Sep2019, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p392-412. 21p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Decision making, *Group decision making, *Employee attitudes, *Test validity, *Experimental design, *Interpersonal relations, *Case studies, *Data analysis, *Job performance, Analysis of variance, Confidence intervals, Management, Personnel management, Statistical sampling, Scale analysis (Psychology), Sex distribution, Statistics, Supervision of employees, T-test (Statistics), Private sector, Public sector, Social support, Multitrait multimethod techniques, Descriptive statistics |
| Abstract: | A topic that remains underexplored in public management research is how the appearance of a formal rule or policy as guiding personnel decisions may affect employee perceptions of organizational decision outcomes. In this article, we consider how the locus of decision making (e.g., the apparent source of a decision) affects perceptions of a decision's fairness. We examine this question with three survey experiments using case vignettes, each describing a distinct personnel decision-making scenario. In each case vignette, we manipulate the locus of decision making (a single supervisor, a team of supervisors, or an organizational policy). We find heterogeneous effects across the three case vignettes. We conclude with a discussion of the implications and future directions for public management research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | A topic that remains underexplored in public management research is how the appearance of a formal rule or policy as guiding personnel decisions may affect employee perceptions of organizational decision outcomes. In this article, we consider how the locus of decision making (e.g., the apparent source of a decision) affects perceptions of a decision's fairness. We examine this question with three survey experiments using case vignettes, each describing a distinct personnel decision-making scenario. In each case vignette, we manipulate the locus of decision making (a single supervisor, a team of supervisors, or an organizational policy). We find heterogeneous effects across the three case vignettes. We conclude with a discussion of the implications and future directions for public management research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00910260 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0091026018819017 |
