Teachers' autonomy in assessment: Swedish and German teachers between perceptions of fairness and institutional framings

ABSTRACT Organizational politics is ubiquitous in organizations. Yet to date, no prior research has investigated, in a systematic empirical manner, the mediating role of organizational politics in performance measurement systems. The primary purpose of this research is to investigate if perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between performance measures and employees' trust in their superiors. As organizational politics may also affect employees' perceptions of fairness, a model is used to investigate (1) if performance measures affect organizational politics; (2) if organizational politics, in turn, affects procedural and interpersonal fairness; and (3) if fairness perceptions subsequently affect trust in superiors. Based on a sample of 104 responses, the partial least squares results indicate that organizational politics and fairness perceptions significantly mediate the nonfinancial performance measures and trust relationship. In contrast, the results indicate that the mediating effects of organizational politics and fairness on the relationship between financial performance measures and trust are generally insignificant.

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Exploring Chinese people’s attitudes towards “going through the backdoor”

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology ◽

10.1177/1834490921993291 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

pp. 183449092199329

Author(s):

Tulips Yiwen Wang ◽

Allan B. I. Bernardo

Keyword(s):

Social Practice ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Chinese Society ◽

Adaptive Responses ◽

Total N ◽

Perceptions Of Fairness ◽

The Social ◽

Personal Connections ◽

Back Door ◽

People’S Attitudes

The present investigation explored Chinese people's attitudes toward the social practice of going “through the back door” or zouhoumen. Zouhoumen is an informal approach to achieve one’s goal through personal connections (called guanxi). We propose that Chinese people distinguish between different acts of zouhoumen and propose at least two types that differ in terms of social cognitive aspects, and that the two types evoke different perceptions of fairness that shape attitudes towards zouhoumen. Two experiments (total N = 414) provided evidence for the differentiation between facilitative zouhoumen and expropriative zouhoumen and also explore the role of type of guanxi in attitudes towards the two types of zouhoumen. Both experiments indicated that facilitative zouhoumen was less unacceptable than expropriative zouhoumen, but there were no marked differences in attitudes between zouhoumen involving expressive or instrumental guanxi. The results support a more nuanced theoretical account of a pervasive social phenomenon in Chinese society that we assume is adaptive responses to features of Chinese historical socioeconomic context.

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The Individual and Administrative Justice

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190903084.013.13 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Naomi Creutzfeldt

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Justice System ◽

Service Users ◽

Perceptions Of Fairness ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The Subject ◽

Individual Justice ◽

The Individual ◽

Individual Service ◽

Administrative Justice

This chapter discusses what individual justice means in the realm of administrative justice. The standards of justice and fairness that apply in administrative decision-making need consideration from the perspective of the service user. Should the administrative justice system serve the citizen or the state? What role do individual service users have in the design, use, and evaluation of more bureaucratic systems of redress? Different notions of justice, as they relate to primary decision-making processes, have been described through various models. This chapter provides a set of tools with which to study the subject and argues for the importance of user voice and perceptions of fairness in the provision of a more citizen-focussed justice.

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Investigating the Impact of Jury Sentencing Recommendations Using Procedural Justice Theory

New Criminal Law Review An International and Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.1525/nclr.2017.20.4.535 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 535-568 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gianni Ribeiro ◽

Emma Antrobus

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Procedural Justice ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

Justice System ◽

Frustration Effect ◽

Public Confidence ◽

Justice Theory ◽

Perceptions Of Fairness ◽

Sentencing Recommendations ◽

The Impact

Public confidence in the criminal justice system is critical for the system to function effectively. Two studies investigated the impact of jury sentencing recommendations on public confidence using procedural justice theory. The first study (N = 80) manipulated the presence of jury involvement in sentencing (voice present versus voice absent) and the punitiveness of the minimum non-parole period (more punitive versus less punitive) to examine whether giving juries a “voice”—a key element of procedural justice—would increase public confidence in the courts, as well as perceptions of fairness and legitimacy. Contrary to predictions, results revealed that a more punitive sentence led to increased perceptions of legitimacy, which was associated with higher confidence. The second study (N = 60) examined whether manipulating the Judge’s agreement with the jury’s recommendation—as well as the Judge’s reason for disagreement—would elicit the “frustration effect,” leading to a decrease in confidence and perceptions of fairness and legitimacy. There was no evidence to suggest that the frustration effect was present. Results of both studies could suggest that jury sentencing recommendations may not effectively increase public confidence and perceptions of fairness and legitimacy in the courts, however alternate explanations are discussed.

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