This study compares East Asians' evaluations of task and maintenance inputs in reward allocation decisions and examines the effects that inequity in various types of inputs and rewards have on fairness judgements. Based on a sample of 587 employees from various organizations in Hong Kong, Japan,...

Value incongruence between employees and organizations has been identified as a negative work condition. An attitude-based account suggests that value incongruence gives rise to negative attitudes toward organizations and thus causes low performance. To complement this mechanism, we propose a...

Purpose: To examine whether and how temporal changes in fairness perceptions are associated with employee attitudes beyond the influence of the current fairness perceptions. Design/Methodology/Approach: A two-wave longitudinal longitudinal design was used. Data were collected from current...

We examine two broad, opposite approaches that often guide managers in managing diversity issues. One approach, the universalist approach, emphasizes similarity as the basis of justice, as embodied in the often-heard managerial motto that fairness is maintained by treating everyone exactly the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans resolve an interpersonal conflict with their supervisors and how cultural factors explain the differences in conflict management styles.Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted involving 275...

Based on the interactions of symbolic dynamics (patterns) in reconstructed attractors, this study conducted a multi-type recognition of the cross-border causality of financial stress, which can be characterized as positive, negative, or dark causality. Using the financial stress index, empirical...

The Indian diamond industry witnessed a severe recession in the year 2008. The industry is already showing signs of recovery in 2009 led by its large-sized firms. This case presents facts from a study conducted in a large-sized Indian diamond processing firm which has existed for the last 40...