This study investigated the effects of decision on simulated tenure (tenure denied vs tenure granted) and organizational outcome (negative vs positive) on perceptions of the fairness of the decision and the decision makers' personalities. Subjects were 127 undergraduate students randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. Analysis indicated variables of the fairness were affected by the manipulations for decision on tenure and the organizational outcome as well as the interaction of these two independent variables. In addition, these variables also affected perceptions of the decision makers' personalities. The implications of these results were discussed.
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