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The role of situational factors in disciplinary judgements
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This paper examined the effects of four situational factors on the severity of punishment chosen by a manager following a rule infraction and found that superiors are likely to base disciplinary judgements on situational factors and that situational factors affect superiors' decisions in a simple linear fashion.Abstract:
This study examined the effects of four situational factors on the severity of punishment chosen by a manager following a rule infraction. Two attributes of the offender, gender and performance history, and two outcomes of the infraction, physical damage and personal injury, were combined within a scenario evaluated by 421 graduate business students in a 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 ANOVA design. Results indicated strong main effects for performance history, physical damage, and personal injury but not for gender. Further analyses indicated that the gender composition of the superior/offender dyad did not have a significant effect on the severity of discipline, although some variation occurred across dyads. These results imply that superiors are likely to base disciplinary judgements on situational factors, and that situational factors affect superiors' decisions in a simple, linear fashion.read more
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Judgments of Responsibility Versus Accountability
Jeremy R. Brees,Mark J. Martinko +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that employees hold others more responsible (i.e., causal) and accountable than they hold themselves for the same workplace mistakes, and that as workplace mistake seriousness increased the variation between self-judgement and other-judgment decreased.
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The effects of differences in explanations, employee attributions, type of infraction, and discipline severity on perceived fairness of employee discipline†
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that the type of attribution, type of infraction, and level of discipline severity have significant effects on perceptions of distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice.
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U.S. Sole Proprietorships: A Gender Comparison, 1985-2000
TL;DR: This article analyzed the differences in business owners across the nation from 1985 to 2000 by looking into sole proprietorships by gender in general and by business size, owner's marital status, 10 industrial classifications, six broad industry categories, and the 10 most populous states in particular.
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Respondents' Gender Differences and Disciplinary Actions: Beliefs as an Antecedent Variable in Research on Attribution
TL;DR: The authors found that men and women exhibit comparable beliefs regarding the effect of available disciplinary actions when attributional stimuli are minimized, and that there were no differences between their beliefs about the effect on the different disciplinary actions.
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Factors influencing supervisors' discipline severity when facing rule violations
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of three situational factors: causality ambiguity, severity of personal injury, and injury target on supervisors' discipline severity following a rule violation were examined, and the results support the notion that supervisors formulate discipline as a function of the context of rule violation rather than the violating behavior itself.
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Punishment in Organizations: A Review, Propositions, and Research Suggestions
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