Rewarding leadership and fair procedures as determinants of self-esteem.
In the present research, the authors examined the effect of procedural fairness and rewarding leadership style on an important variable for employees: self-esteem. The authors predicted that procedural fairness would positively influence people's reported self-esteem if the leader adopted a style of rewarding behavior for a job well done. Results from a scenario experiment, a laboratory experiment, and an organizational survey indeed show that procedural fairness and rewarding leadership style interacted to influence followers' self-esteem, such that the positive relationship between procedural fairness and self-esteem was more pronounced when the leadership style was high in rewarding behavior. Implications in terms of integrating the leadership and procedural fairness literature are discussed.
De Cremer
David
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Department of Economic and Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands. d.decremer@uvt.nl
van Knippenberg
Barbara
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van Knippenberg
Daan
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Mullenders
Danny
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Stinglhamber
Florence
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D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011897:Random Allocation; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept