Outcome Favorability, Procedures, and Individualism-Collectivism in Procedural Justice Perceptions

• Main Author: CHOI, Jaepil
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Business
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1726
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Most justice researchers have defined outcomes and procedural characteristics, two key determinants of procedural justice perceptions, in a limited way. In addition, cultural values have been mostly ignored in previous procedural justice research. In this article we present new conceptualizations of outcomes and procedures and delineate how individualism-collectivism interacts with outcomes and procedural characteristics to determine procedural justice perceptions. In so doing, we contend that because of different information-processing styles and contrasting preference of behavioral styles between individualists and collectivists, procedural justice perceptions are shaped differently. A cross-cultural perspective on procedural justice presented here calls for more future research on different psychological dynamics of procedural justice perceptions across cultural values.