22 research outputs found
Gender Effects in Injustice Perceptions: An Experiment on Error Evaluation and Effort Provision
As performances are rarely observable, evaluation errors may occur. We
observe how women react to evaluation errors and wrongful reward assessment in
organizations. In particular, we focus on severity and leniency errors in the evaluation
of performances. Severity errors occur when workers do not receive the reward
although they exerted high effort and reached the target. Leniency errors occur
when workers are rewarded even when they exerted low effort and did not reach the
target. They are both detrimental to motivation and effort provision. Our findings
from a laboratory experiment show that, when gender is considered, asymmetric
results are shown for men and women. Whereas males drop their contribution more
under severity errors rather than leniency errors, female tend to do the opposite. We
discuss these results contributing to the literature on organizational justice by investigating
the role of gender in the perception of justice within organizations