Fairness and Ideology
通过269名被试对八种裁员场景的公平判断，检验了意识形态（社群主义与个人主义）如何影响组织公平观念，运用社会判断理论分析直接与间接影响。
Although social contracts theory has been applied to organizations (Donaldson & Dunfee, 1994), rarely has the theory been tested empirically. This article uses the traditions of communitarianism and individualism to instantiate an ideal-type economic social contract. We asked 269 subjects to complete the Ideological Orientation Scale and to make judgments on eight downsizing scenarios. Using social judgment theory, we assess the direct and indirect influences of ideology on judgments of fairness. Our findings suggest that ideology indeed shapes individual’s conceptions of organizational fairness.