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| Titel: |
Effects of Causal Attributions on Personnel Decisions: A Social Motivation Perspective |
| Auteur: |
Struthers, C. Ward Weiner, Bernard Allred, Keith |
| Verschenen in: |
Basic and applied social psychology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 20 (1998) nr. 2 pagina's 155-166 |
| Jaar: |
1998-06-01 |
| Inhoud: |
In organizations, many of the crucial decisions concern employees, particularly regarding those who perform poorly. One theory that can potentially assist in understanding how personnel managers make personnel decisions is Weiner's (1995a) attributional theory of social conduct. Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of ability (low, high) and effort (low, high) causal information for an employee's poor work performance on personnel decisions. In Study 1, college students played the role of personnel managers and read four performance appraisals written about an employee who missed a deadline at work. Results show that each performance-appraisal vignette elicited a unique decision profile (e.g., to reprimand, to fire, to console). These results were replicated using a sample of individuals with personnel-management experience in Study 2. To examine the extent to which certain personnel decisions are mediated by specific cognitive and affective variables, a structural equation analysis was conducted in Study 3. Findings indicate that there is an acceptable fit of the data to the model tested and that attributions and personnel decisions for poor work performance are mediated by how responsible the employee is judged to be and how much sympathy the evaluator feels. The implications for these results are discussed within the framework of Weiner's attributional theory of social conduct and personnel decision making. |
| Uitgever: |
Psychology Press |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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