Pitfalls of administering justice in an inconsistent world: Some reflections on the consistency rule
基于法律情境，探讨了决策者在动荡环境中执行规则时面临的挑战，包括规则需适应新信息、一致性可能与其他原则冲突，以及来自不同群体的解释压力，对组织管理者有启示。
Abstract The unique legal context investigated by Stein, Steinley, and Cropanzano (this issue) highlights important challenges facing decision makers charged with administering justice in turbulent environments. First, rules may need to be adapted to new information and changed circumstances. Second, consistency over time can compete with altruistic motives, moral convictions, and other important principles. Third, decisionmakers may face demands from multiple audiences to re‐interpret a rule in ways that are harsher, more lenient, or otherwise different than previously warranted. Since managers in other organizational settings can also face strong pressures to change over time how they interpret and apply rules, the legal context highlights important aspects of fairness that can compete with consistency over time, and that merit further investigation. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.