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Seeking measure of employee perceptions of the basis of supervisor reward allocations

  • 1.  Seeking measure of employee perceptions of the basis of supervisor reward allocations

    Posted 08-28-2011 22:55

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    Bob Liden and I, along with our doctoral students, are in the process of designing a study and are interested in measuring the basis of reward allocation of the supervisor, as perceived byhis/her employee.  Specifically, Deutsch (1975) identified three underlying values for distributing outcomes consisting of equity, equality, and needs.   Our literature search indicates that many laboratory andfield experiments have manipulated the basis of the supervisor's reward allocation (equity/equality/need) but we haven't found a measure of employee perceptions of their supervisors' basis for allocating rewards-that is, whether the employee feels that the supervisor allocates rewards among members of the group on the basis of equity, equality, or need.  Further, many studies on reward allocation measure fairness (distributive, procedural, interactional, and informational) but not the specific value that is the basis for allocating rewards (equity, equality, need), as perceived by the employee.  Is anyone aware of such a measure?   

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Sandy Wayne (sjwayne@uic.edu)


    Sandy J. Wayne, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Director, University of Illinois Center for Human Resource Management
    University of Illinois at Chicago