RT Article
T1 Social Comparison and Distributive Justice: East Asia Differences
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 132
IS 2
SP 401
OP 414
A1 Kim, Tae-Yeol
A1 Edwards, Jeffrey R.
A1 Shapiro, Debra L.
A2 Edwards, Jeffrey R.
A2 Shapiro, Debra L.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785656155
AB Using a survey of 393 employees who were natives and residents of China, Japan, and South Korea, we examined the extent to which employees from different countries within East Asia experience distributive justice when they perceived that their work outcomes relative to a referent other (i.e., someone with similar “inputs” such as educational background and/or job responsibilities) were (1) equally poor, (2) equally favorable, (3) more poor, or (4) more favorable. As predicted, we found that when employees perceived themselves relative to a referent other to be recipients of more favorable outcomes (i.e., pay, job security), Chinese and Korean employees were less likely than Japanese employees to experience distributive injustice. We also found that these differences were partially mediated by employees’ level of materialism. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.
K1 Materialism
K1 East Asia
K1 cross-cultural differences
K1 Social comparison
K1 Distributive Justice
DO 10.1007/s10551-014-2326-1