The Apparent Locus of Managerial Decision Making and Perceptions of Fairness in Public Personnel Management
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- The Apparent Locus of Managerial Decision Making and Perceptions of Fairness in Public Personnel Management_(accepted_version)
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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
Original language | English |
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Journal | Public Personnel Management |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 392-412 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISSN | 0091-0260 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Decision Making, Rules and Policies, Organizational Justice, Survey Experiment
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