不确定感在他人的程序公正与自我的合作行为之间的中介作用

摘要： 以公平启发理论为基础，结合不确定管理理论，采用情境实验法(实验1)和行为实验法(实验2)，探讨了不确定感这一工具性动机在他人的程序公正与自我的合作行为之间的中介作用。研究结果发现：(1)他人的程序公正会促进自我的合作行为的出现；(2)不确定感降低了自我的合作行为的出现；(3)不确定感部分中介了他人的程序公正对自我的合作行为的影响。
Abstract: Procedural justice is the key antecedent of employee’s cooperation (Cornelis, Van Hiel, & De Cremer, 2011; De Cremer & Tyler, 2007; Tyler & Blader, 2003). However, researchers primarily take a first-person perspective on the study of this effect (Colquitt et al., 2013), few studies take an observer perspective on organizational justice. In organizations, others’ procedural justice can significantly influence how individuals evaluate their organizations and the organizational authorities who enact justice. These evaluations, in turn, shape their engagement with those entities, such as cooperation, identification, commitment, and other attitudes and behaviors. This perspective is particularly important because members of organization witness many more justice events than they experience personally (Blader, Wiesenfeld, Fortin, & Wheeler-Smith, 2013; Lotz, Okimoto, Schl?sser, & Fetchenhauer, 2011). Existing studies have found that others’ procedural justice can predict self-directed cooperation (Mitchell, Vogel, & Folger, 2015; Wubben, De Cremer, & Van Dijk, 2011), and the mediating role of non-instrumental factors (Tyler & Blader, 2003; Blader & Tyler, 2009), but few studies examine which instrumental factor can mediate this effect. According to fairness heuristic theory (Lind, 2001) and uncertainty management theory (Van den Bos & Lind, 2002), the present study will explore whether this effect is mediated through instrumental factors (e.g., uncertainty). Two experiments were conducted. In experiment 1 (situation paradigm), participants consisted of 168 college students, and others’ procedural justice was manipulated by directing participates to imagine one piece of story associated with procedural justice that we prepared before. Specifically, the situation story talked about the procedure of a sum of reward allocation within a college students’ research team (justice vs. injustice). Independent-samples T test was used to test the validity of the manipulations, and it showed that the manipulations were successful. In addition, the influence of others’ procedural justice on self-directed cooperation was investigated. Using hierarchical regression analysis (Baron & Kenny, 1986), this experiment investigated the causal relationship between others’ procedural justice and self-directed cooperation, and the mediating effects of uncertainty between others’ procedural justice