Chapter 7
Procedural Justice
-Defined as the perceived fairness of the process and procedures used to make allocation decisions
Inputs
-Education/training, skills, creativity, seniority, age, personality traits, effort expended, and personal appearance
Equity Relationships
-Equity -Positive inequity -Negatieve inequity
Goal Commitment
-Extent to which an individual is personally committed to achieving a goal
Sensitives
-Individuals who adhere to a strict norm of reciprocity and are quickly motivated to resolve both negative and positive inequity
Management by Objectives
-Management system that incorporates participation in decision making, goal setting, and objective feedback
Equity Theory
-Model for motivation that explains how people strive for fairness and justice in social exchanges or give-and-take relationships
Nagative Inequity
-Occurs when comparison person enjoys greater outcomes for similar inputs
Positive Inequity
-Occurs when one's outcomes to input ratio is greater than that of a relevant coworker
Action Plan
-Outlines the activities or tasks that need to be accomplished in order to obtain goal
Outcome
-Pay/bonuses medical benefits, challenging assignments, job security, promotions, status symbols, and recognition
Benevolents
-People who have a higher tolerance for negative inequity
Entitleds
-People who have no tolerance for negative inequity
Instrumentality
-Performance to outcome perception
Interactional Justice
-Quality treatment people receive when procedures and implemented
Equity Sensitivity
-Reflects an individuals's different preferences for, tolerances for, and reactions to the level of equity associated with a given situation
Organizational Justice
-Reflects the extent to which people perceive that they are treated fairly at work
Distributive Justice
-Reflects the perceived fairness of how resources and rewards are distributed or allocated
Expectancy
-Represents an individual's belief that a particular degree of effort will be followed particular level of performance
SMART Goals
-Specific -Measurable -Attainable -Results oriented -Time bound
Valence
-The positive or negative value people place on outcomes
Goal Specificity
-The quantifiability of a goal
Expectancy Theory
-Theory that says people are motivated to behave in ways that produce desired combinations of expected outcomes
Vroom's Expectancy Theory
-Theory that states the strength of a tendency to act in a certain way depends on the strength of an expectancy that the act will be followed by a given consequence (outcome) and on the value or attractiveness of that consequence (outcome) to the actor
Goal
-What an individual is trying to accomplish; it is the object or aim of an action
