Procedural justice enactment as an instrument of position protection: The three‐way interaction between leader's power position stability, followers’ warmth, and followers’ competence
2020
Studies have started to examine factors that explain when and why leaders enact
procedural justice. However, these studies have not considered the idea that justice enactment
can be a self-serving instrument for leaders. In this paper, we propose a threat-based
tripartite model of procedural justice enactment. Specifically, we examine how leaders in
unstable (vs. stable) power positions combine information from the two fundamental
dimensions of person perception—that is, their perceptions of a follower’s competence and
warmth—to shape the level of procedural justice they enact toward the follower. In support
of our model, the results of a multisource organizational field study and a laboratory
experiment show that leaders in unstable power positions enact procedural justice,
particularly toward followers whom they perceive as highly competent but low in warmth.
We discuss our findings in light of their implications for the justice and leadership literatures.
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