High procedural fairness heightens the effect of outcome favorability on self-evaluations: An attributional analysis

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-68

  Brockner, Joel ^a   Heuer, Larry ^a   Magner, Nace ^b   Folger, Robert ^c   Umphress, Elizabeth ^c   van den Bos, Kees ^d   Vermunt, Riel ^e   Magner, Mary ^b   Siegel, Phyllis ^f  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution theory; Organizational justice; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038297417     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00531-9     Document Type: Review

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