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Introduction


The main topic of the article: Cultural and Procedural Fairness- When the Effects of What You Do Depend on How You Do It
The authors in this article mentions that how organisational culture influences organisational behaviours. Organisational culture is “a system of shared meaning and beliefs within an organisation that determines in a large degree how employees act” (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg & Coulter, 2003, p. 70). Organisational behaviour is “the field of study concerned with the behaviours of people at work” (Robbins et. al., 2003, p. 44). In addition, the authors evaluated whether cultural differences in people’s tendencies to view themselves as interdependent or independent moderate the interactive relationship between procedural fairness and outcome favourability (Brocker, Chen, Mannix, Leung & Skarlicki, 2000, p. 138).The author mentioned how different cultures foster in organisation and the interaction of procedural fairness with outcome favourability. They are all very important in management. This is because managers and employees sometimes come from different backgrounds. As people bring their original culture to work, people from different countries behave quite differently. In addition they are working together all the time in the organisations, so they need to appreciate others’ cultures if they come from different countries.

This topic in text book is unit2: Organisation and Managers
• Chapter 2 : Management yesterday and today (pp.44-48)
• Chapter 3 : Organisational culture and the environment the constraints (pp.70-81)


The main argument of the article


Two arguments are presented by the author in the article. In addition, there are separated two main arguments of the article. The first argument is the interaction of procedural fairness with outcome favourability. Two areas are examined- time frame and currency of exchange. People are concerned not only with the short t...