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Procedural Justice And Voice: Do Individual Differences Moderate The Voice Effect?, Mark N. Van Osdel
Procedural Justice And Voice: Do Individual Differences Moderate The Voice Effect?, Mark N. Van Osdel
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Previous researchers (see Lind & Tyler, 1988) have reported that persons allowed an opportunity to express their opinions (voice) typically report a heightened level of perceived fairness-labeled as the voice effect. Instrumental and group-value theories have been proposed as explanations for this effect. The present study examined the voice effect in the context of personality theory to explore individual differences in relation to instrumental and group value theories of voice. This study was designed to test the effect of two individual difference components, Locus of Control and Need for Affiliation, across three conditions of voice (predecision, postdecision, and no-voice). Predecision …