Peer performance appraisal: The impact of appraisal source and purpose, perceptions of supervisor negative inaccuracy, and opportunity to select peer appraisers on appraisee perceptions of procedural fairness

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Although supervisory performance appraisals are the most common form of performance appraisal in organizations, there are numerous other potential sources of performance appraisal data. One alternate form of performance appraisal which is becoming increasingly popular is peer performance appraisal. There are numerous advantages of peer performance appraisals, however, user acceptability has been problematic. This is the second study which uses procedural justice theory as a framework for studying the acceptability of peer performance appraisals. Procedural justice researchers have found that satisfaction can be derived from the perceived fairness of procedures, and that low outcomes are more palatable if the procedures which led to those outcomes are perceived as fair (Lind & Tyler, 1988). Moreover, procedural justice researchers have also studied aspects of procedures which impact procedural fairness perceptions. This field experiment (using 218 subjects from three organizations) inve

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