Please forward the Call for Participation to a SIOP Symposium below.
Dear Colleagues,
I am putting together a symposium for the 2012 SIOP Annual Meeting on Neuroeconomics and Organizational Justice. I am looking for contributors to this symposium.
Recent developments in the fields of neuroeconomics, social cognitive neuroscience and neuroscience have provided valuable insights for organizational justice scholars. In a special issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes on the Biological Basis of Business, Beugré (2009) proposed a neuro-cognitive model of organizational justice, which suggests that fairness in organizations stems from neural activation. Likewise, Dulebohn et al. (2009) studied the relationship between distributive justice (the fairness of outcomes received) and procedural justice (the fairness of formal procedures) using fMRI methods. These authors observed that unfair procedures evoked greater activation in parts of the brain related to social cognition, such as the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and the superior temporal sulcus (STS), whereas unfair outcomes evoked greater activation in more emotional areas of the brain, such as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the anterior insula (AI), and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The purpose of this symposium is to explore the extent to which neuroeconomics can enrich the study of fairness in organizations. I am looking for empirical as well as conceptual topics linking the two fields. If you are interested in participating in this symposium, please send your extended abstracts to me (Constant D. Beugre, e-mail: cbeugre@desu.edu) by September 3, 2011.
Best Regards,
Constant
Constant D. Beugre, Ph.D.
Professor of Management & Chair,
Department of Business Administration
College of Business
Delaware State University
1200 N Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE 19901
Phone: 302-857-6933
Fax: 302-857-6927