NDLI: The Face of Fairness: Self-Awareness as a Means to Promote Fairness among Managers with Low Empathy

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Author	Whiteside, David B. Barclay, Laurie J.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Although managing fairness is a critical concern for organizations, not all managers are predisposed to enact high levels of fairness. Emerging empirical evidence suggests that personality characteristics can be an important antecedent of managers’ fair behavior. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to understand how to promote fairness among managers who are naturally predisposed to engage in lower levels of fairness. Building upon self-awareness theory, we argue that increasing managers’ self-awareness can motivate managers with low trait empathy to engage in greater levels of justice. We test the interactive effects of trait empathy and state self-awareness using an experimental study (N = 76) in which individuals were asked to communicate negative news. In support of our hypothesis, our results indicate that increasing self-awareness through self-focusing situations can help promote interactional justice when communicating negative news for individuals with low trait empathy. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
Starting Page	721
Ending Page	730
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01674544
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume Number	137
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15730697
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-09-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Fairness Justice Empathy Self-awareness Ethics Business and Management Management Business Ethics Quality of Life Research
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Business and International Management Law Economics and Econometrics

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