TY - JOUR
T1 - The Apparent Locus of Managerial Decision Making and Perceptions of Fairness in Public Personnel Management
AU - Stritch, Justin Michael
AU - Pedersen, Mogens Jin
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - 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
AB - 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
U2 - 10.1177/0091026018819017
DO - 10.1177/0091026018819017
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0091-0260
VL - 48
SP - 392
EP - 412
JO - Public Personnel Management
JF - Public Personnel Management
IS - 3
ER -