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Emotional Effects of Distributive Justice as a Function of Autocratic Leader Behavior 1
Author(s) -
De Cremer David
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00217.x
Subject(s) - autocracy , distributive justice , distributive property , psychology , social psychology , leadership style , style (visual arts) , economic justice , function (biology) , political science , democracy , law , pure mathematics , mathematics , archaeology , evolutionary biology , politics , biology , history
The present research examined the effect of distributive justice and autocratic leadership style on followers' negative emotions. It was predicted that distributive justice would influence followers' negative emotions if the leader did not adopt an autocratic leadership style (i.e., not being pushy in the process leading to the decision). Results from a scenario experiment and an organizational survey indeed showed that distributive justice and autocratic leadership style interacted to influence followers' negative emotions such that the relationship between distributive justice and negative emotions was significant when the leadership style was low in autocratic behavior. Implications in terms of integrating the leadership and justice literature are discussed.