The effects of the value of harmony and group relationship on distributive decision: Investigating the situational effects

• Main Authors: Meng-Lin Chiang, 江孟霖
• Other Authors: Min-Ping Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15003192565656334112

碩士 === 元智大學 === 企業管理與服務科學學程 === 99 === Justice is always a very important issue. It’s related to the feeling of fairness, and this feeling will bring different attitudes toward people in their daily life, work and relationship with others. In the past, the west put their focus on the distributive justice, but change to the procedural justice nowadays. While in the different culture effect between east and west, Confucius thinking made a huge effect to Chinese. Based on this, Chinese developed a different value system about justice with the west. Chinese discuss more about distributive justice but not procedural justice, and don’t use contribution to be the only standard to measure justice. Chinese use relationship and emotion to be the standard more often, and prefer to choose equality and need distribution rules. Even there were a lot of researches about how Chinese culture effect distributive justice, but they are too simple; we believe that there exist more variables and relationships between culture and justice. So, we are not only discuss about two important characteristics including “Harmony” and “group relationship”, but also use “performance” and “resource” to make up several situations to explore more deeper on this issue. Through the questionnaire which includes the situation story and questions to test subject’s value. And we get 400 effective samples. After our analysis, we found out that harmony does have some effect when subjects decide which distribution rules they prefer, but group relationship doesn’t. And after we add the modulating factors which will change the whole situation, when the performance is discordant and relationship is bad, the situation will strengthen the effect between harmony and justice; when the performance is the same and relationship is good, the situation will strengthen the effect between group relationship and justice. Based on this, compare to the researches in the past, we get a more clear inside about situational effect on justice.