BROCKNER, Joel <br/><br/>
Culture and procedural fairness :  when the effects of what you do depend on how you do it 

 - Ithaca :  Johnson Graduate School of Management,  March 2000 
<br/><br/> Previous research has shown that procedural fairness and outcome favorability interactively combine to influence people's reactions to their social exhanges. The tendency for people to respond more positively when outcomes are more favorable is reduced when procedural fairness (how things happen) is relatively high. This paper evaluantes whether cultural differences in people's tendencies to view themselves as interdependent or independent (their self-construal) moderate the interactive relationship between procedural fairness and outcome favorability. In exchange with another party as a function of the other party's procedural fairness and the outcome favorability associated with another party as a function of the other party's procedural fairness and the outcome favorability associated with the exchange. In study 1, participants national culture was treated as a proxy for their self-construal were assesssed. In study 2, people's national cultuere was treated as a proxy for their self-construal were assesssed. In study 3, participants were classified on the basis of their self-construals. Converging evidence across studies showed that the interactive relatioship between procedural fairness and outcome favorability was more pronouced among participants with more interdependent forms of self-construal