The Perceived Fairness of Managerial Promotion Practices

This research investigated whether the perceived fairness of promotion practices depends primarily upon the outcome of the decision-making process for employees, the perceived nature of promotion policies and their administration, or both. Data from 121 managers and assistant managers in a decentralized restaurant company indicated that managers' judgments regarding procedural components contributed a significant increment in predicting perceived promotion system fairness over and above the contribution of distributive variables.