How leader prototypicality affects followers' status: The role of procedural fairness

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 226-250

  van Dijke, Marius ^a   de Cremer, David ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Identification; Leadership; Legitimacy; Procedural fairness; Prototypicality; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049083410     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13594320701743491     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Aiken, S. and West, S. G. (1991) Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions, Sage, New York
2. Anderson, C., Shrivastava, S., Beer, J. S., Spataro, S. E. and Chatman, J. A. (2006) Knowing your place: Self-perceptions of status in face-to-face groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, pp. 1094-1110.
3. Baron, R. M. and Kenny, D. A. (1986) The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, pp. 1173-1182.
4. Brockner, J., Tyler, T. R. and Cooper-Schneider, R. (1992) The influence of prior commitment to an institution on reactions to perceived unfairness: The higher they are, the harder they fall. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37, pp. 241-261.
5. Brown, R., Condor, S., Mathews, A., Wade, G. and Williams, J. (1986) Explaining intergroup differentiation in an industrial organization. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 59, pp. 273-286.
6. Cohen-Charash, Y. and Spector, P. E. (2001) The role of justice in organizations: A meta-analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86, pp. 278-321.
7. Colquitt, J. A. (2001) On the dimensionality of organizational Justice: A construct validation of a measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, pp. 386-400.
8. Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O. L. H. and Yee, K. (2001) Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, pp. 425-445.
9. Crocker, J. and Major, B. (1989) Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma. Psychological Review, 96, pp. 608-630.
10. Cropanzano, R., Byrne, Z. S., Bobocel, D. R. and Rupp, D. E. (2001) Moral virtues, fairness heuristics, social entities, and other denizens of organizational justice. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 58, pp. 164-209.
11. De Cremer, D. (2006) Unfair treatment and revenge taking: The roles of collective identification and feelings of disappointment. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 10, pp. 220-232.
12. De Cremer, D. and Tyler, T. R. (2005) Am i respected or not? Inclusion and reputation as issues in group membership. Social Justice Research, 18, pp. 121-153.
13. De Cremer, D. and Tyler, T. R. Integrating leadership and procedural fairness: A contingency approach. Research in organizational justice, 1, JAI Press/Elsevier, Oxford, UK
14. De Cremer, D., van Knippenberg, D., van Dijke, M. H. and Bos, A. (2006) Self-sacrificial leadership and followers' self-Esteem: When collective identification matters. Group Dynamics, 10, pp. 233-245.
15. De Cremer, D., van Knippenberg, B., van Knippenberg, D., Mullenders, D. and Stinglhamber, F. (2005) Rewarding leadership and fair procedures as determinants of self-esteem. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, pp. 3-12.
16. De Cremer, D. and van Vugt, M. (1999) Social identification effects in social dilemmas: A transformation of motives. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, pp. 871-893.
17. Dipboye, R. L. (1990) Laboratory vs. field research in industrial and organizational psychology. International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 5, pp. 1-34.
18. Dovidio, J. F., Brown, C. E., Heltman, K., Ellyson, S. L. and Keation, C. F. (1988) Power displays between women and men in discussions of gender linked tasks: A multichannel study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, pp. 580-587.
19. Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (2002) Loonstructuuronderzoek 2002 [Pay structure Study 2002]
20. Dutch Knowledge Centre for Government Personnel (2003) Kerngegevens overheidspersoneel [Core Data Government Personnel]
21. Elovainio, M., Leino-Arjas, P., Vahtera, J. and Kivimäki, M. (2006) Justice at work and cardiovascular mortality: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, pp. 271-274.
22. Fielding, K. S. and Hogg, M. A. (1997) Social identity, self-categorization, and leadership: A field study of small interactive groups. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 1, pp. 39-51.
23. Flynn, F. J. (2003) How much should I give and how often? The effects of generosity and frequency of favour exchange on social status and productivity. Academy of Management Journal, 46, pp. 539-553.
24. Flynn, F. J., Reagans, R. E., Amanatullah, E. T. and Ames, D. R. (2006) Helping one's way to the top: Self-monitors achieve status by helping others and knowing who helps whom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, pp. 1123-1137.
25. Frank, R. H. (1985) Choosing the right pond: Human behavior and the quest for status, Oxford University Press, New York
26. Hains, S. C., Hogg, M. A. and Duck, J. M. (1997) Self-categorization and leadership: Effects of group prototypicality and leader stereotypicality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, pp. 1087-1100.
27. Hogg, M. A. (2000) Subjective uncertainty reduction through self-categorization: A motivational theory of social identity processes. European review of social psychology, 11, pp. 223-256. Wiley, New York
28. Hogg, M. A. (2001) A social identity theory of leadership. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, pp. 85-111.
29. Hogg, M. A. and Reid, S. A. (2001) Social identity, leadership, and power. The use and abuse of power: Multiple perspectives on the causes of corruption, pp. 159-180. Psychology Press, Philadelphia
30. Hull, J. G., Tedlie, J. C. and Lehn, D. A. (1992) Moderator variables in personality research: The problem of controlling for plausible alternatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, pp. 115-117.
31. Kohn, A. (1999) Punished by rewards: The trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's praise, and other bribes, Houghton Mifflin, Boston
32. Leary, M. R., Cottrell, C. A. and Phillips, M. (2001) Deconfounding the effects of dominance and social acceptance on self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, pp. 898-909.
33. Leventhal, G. S. (1980) What should be done with equity theory? New approaches to the study of fairness in social relationships. Social exchange: Advances in theory and research, pp. 27-55. Plenum, New York
34. Lind, E. A. (2001) Fairness heuristic theory: Justice judgments as pivotal cognitions in organizational relations. Advances in organization justice, pp. 56-88. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
35. Lind, E. A. (2001) Thinking critically about justice judgments. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 58
36. Lind, E. A. (2002) Fairness judgments as cognitions. The justice motive in everyday life, pp. 416-431. Cambridge University Press, New York
37. Lind, E. A., Kray, L. and Thompson, L. (2001) Primacy effects in justice judgments: Testing predictions from fairness theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 85, pp. 189-210.
38. Lind, E. A. and Tyler, T. R. (1988) The social psychology of procedural justice, Plenum Press, New York
39. Lipponen, J., Koivisto, S. and Olkkonen, M. E. (2005) Procedural justice and status judgements: The moderating role of leader ingroup prototypicality. Leadership Quarterly, 16, pp. 517-528.
40. MacKinnon, D. P., Lockwood, C. M., Hoffman, J. M., West, S. G. and Sheets, V. (2002) A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variables effects. Psychological Methods, 7, pp. 83-104.
41. Mael, F. and Ashforth, B. E. (1992) Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, pp. 103-123.
42. Major, B., Sciacchitano, A. and Crocker, J. (1993) In-group versus out-group comparisons and self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, pp. 711-721.
43. Mansour-Cole, D. M. and Scott, S. G. (1998) Hearing it through the grapevine: The influence of source, leader relations, and legitimacy on survivor's fairness perceptions. Personnel Psychology, 51, pp. 25-54.
44. McClelland, G. H. and Judd, C. M. (1993) Statistical difficulties of detecting interactions and moderator effects. Psychological Bulletin, 114, pp. 376-390.
45. Mullen, B., Salas, E. and Driskell, J. E. (1989) Salience, motivation, and artefact as contributions to the relation between participation rate and leadership. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, pp. 545-559.
46. Muller, D., Judd, C. M. and Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2005) When moderation is mediated and mediation is moderated. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, pp. 852-863.
47. Pillai, R., Schriesheim, C. A. and Williams, E. S. (1999) Fairness perceptions and trust as mediator for transformational and transactional leadership: A two-sample study. Journal of Management, 25, pp. 897-933.
48. Platow, M. J., Reid, S. and Andrew, S. (1998) Leadership endorsement: The role of distributive and procedural behavior in interpersonal and intergroup contexts. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1, pp. 35-47.
49. Platow, M. J. and van Knippenberg, D. (2001) A social identity analysis of leadership endorsement: The effects of leader ingroup prototypicality and distributive intergroup fairness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, pp. 1508-1519.
50. Preacher, K. J., Rucker, D. D. and Hayes, A. F. (2007) Addressing moderated mediation hypotheses: Theory, methods, and prescriptions. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 42, pp. 185-227.
51. Prentice, D. A., Miller, D. T. and Lightdale, J. R. (1994) Asymmetries in attachments to groups and to their members: Distinguishing between common-identity and common-bond groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, pp. 484-493.
52. Ridgeway, C. L. (1986) Dominance, performance, and status in groups: A theoretical analysis. Advances in group processes, 1, pp. 59-93. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT
53. Smith, H. J. and Tyler, T. (1997) Choosing the right pond: The impact of group membership on self-esteem and group oriented behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, pp. 146-170.
54. Smith, H. J., Tyler, T. R., Huo, Y. J., Ortiz, D. J. and Lind, E. A. (1998) The self-relevant implications of the group-value model: Group membership, self-worth, and treatment quality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, pp. 470-493.
55. Tajfel, H. and Turner, J. C. (1986) The social identity theory of intergroup behavior. Psychology of intergroup relations, pp. 7-24. Nelson Hall, Chicago
56. Taylor, S. E., Lerner, J. S., Sherman, D. K., Sage, R. M. and McDowell, N. K. (2003) Portrait of the self-enhancer: Well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, pp. 165-176.
57. Turner, J. C., Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D. and Wetherell, M. S. (1987) Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK and New York
58. Tyler, T. R. (1989) The psychology of procedural justice: A test of the group-value model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, pp. 830-838.
59. Tyler, T. R. (1994) Psychological models of the justice motive: Antecedents of distributive and procedural justice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, pp. 850-863.
60. Tyler, T. R. (1999) Why people cooperate with organizations: An identity-based perspective. Research in organizational behavior, 21, pp. 201-246. Elsevier Science/JAI Press, Greenwich, CT
61. Tyler, T. R. (2006) Psychological perspectives on legitimacy and legitimation. Annual Review of Psychology, 57, pp. 375-400.
62. Tyler, T. R. and Blader, S. L. (2000) Cooperation in groups: Procedural justice, social identity, and behavioral engagement, Psychology Press, Philadelphia
63. Tyler, T. R. and Blader, S. L. (2002) Autonomous vs. comparative status: Must we be better than others to feel good about ourselves?. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 89, pp. 813-838.
64. Tyler, T. R. and Degoey, P. (1995) Collective restraint in social dilemmas: Procedural justice and social identification effects on support for authorities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, pp. 482-497.
65. Tyler, T. R., Degoey, P. and Smith, H. (1996) Understanding why the justice of group procedures matters: A test of the psychological dynamics of the group value model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, pp. 913-930.
66. Tyler, T. R. and Lind, E. A. (1992) A relational model of authority in groups. Advances in experimental social psychology, 25, pp. 115-191. Academic Press, San Diego, CA
67. Bos, K. Van den, Wilke, H. A. M. and Lind, E. A. (1998) When do we need procedural fairness? The role of trust in authority. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, pp. 1449-1458.
68. Van Dijke, M. and De Cremer, D. (2007) The role of procedural fairness in explaining leader prototypicality effects. Manuscript submitted for publication
69. Van Knippenberg, B., Martin, L. and Tyler, T. R. (2006) Process-orientedness versus outcome-orientedness during organizational change: The role of organizational identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, pp. 685-704.
70. Van Knippenberg, B. and van Knippenberg, D. (2005) Leader self-sacrifice and leadership effectiveness: The moderating role of leader prototypicality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, pp. 25-37.
71. Van Knippenberg, D., De Cremer, D. and van Knippenberg, B. (2007) Leadership and fairness: The state of the art. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 16, pp. 113-140.
72. Van Knippenberg, D. and Hogg, M. A. (2003) A social identity model of leadership effectiveness in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 25, pp. 243-296.
73. Van Knippenberg, D., van Knippenberg, B. and De Cremer, D. (2005) Extending the social identity model of leadership: The interactive effects of leader prototypicality and leader procedural fairness. Paper presented at the 12th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology Istanbul
74. Van Prooijen, J. W., Bos, K. van den and Wilke, H. A. M. (2002) Procedural justice and status: Status salience as antecedent of procedural fairness effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, pp. 1353-1361.
75. Van Prooijen, J. W., Bos, K. van den and Wilke, H. A. M. (2004) Group belongingness and procedural justice: Social inclusion and exclusion by peers affects the psychology of voice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, pp. 66-79.
76. Van Prooijen, J. W., Bos, K. van den and Wilke, H. A. M. (2004) The role of standing in the psychology of procedural justice: Towards theoretical integration. European review of social psychology, 15, pp. 33-58. Psychology Press, Hove, UK
77. Van Vugt, M. and De Cremer, D. (1999) Leadership in social dilemmas: The effects of group identification on collective actions to provide public goods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, pp. 587-599.
78. Yzerbyt, V. Y., Muller, D. and Judd, C. M. (2004) Adjusting researchers' approach to adjustment: On the use of covariates when testing interactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, pp. 424-431.