Performance Appraisal Procedural Justice: The Role of Manager's Implicit Person Theory
Publication Date
4-11-2011
Abstract
Although there is a vast literature on employee reactions to procedural injustice, little is known about the important issue of why some managers are less procedurally just than others. In this field study we found that a manager’s implicit person theory (IPT; i.e., extent of assumption that people can change) predicted employees’ perceptions of the procedural justice with which their last performance appraisal was conducted. These procedural justice perceptions in turn predicted employees’ organizational citizenship behavior, as partially mediated by their organizational commitment. This research provides an initial empirical basis for a new line of inquiry that extends existing IPT theory into the realm of perceptual, attitudinal, and behavioral responses to people as a function of their IPT. Other contributions to the IPT, performance appraisal, and procedural justice literatures are discussed.
Document Type
Article
Keywords
implicit person theory, performance appraisals, procedural justice
Disciplines
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Source
SMU Cox: Management & Organizations (Topic)
Language
English
