Published papers

これまでの組織的公正研究は、公正かどうかという観点からその価値を操作してきた。しかし、本研究は、個人がフェアではなくアンフェアな側面に注目するという仮定に基づいて研究を構築した。その結果、公正さと不公正さに分けて考えることの妥当性が支持された。ただし公正より不公正さの方が個人の行動を引き起こすより強力なパワーを持つという仮説は支持されなかった。しかしながら不公正さがアウトカム変数に対して独自な寄与を持つことは示された。最後に、公正さと不公正さの弁別概念妥当性をより厳密に検証する必要性が示唆された。

The present study estimated that the state of regulatory fit may strengthen the individual's motivation. Regulatory fit might emerge when promotion focus and positive framing or prevention focus and negative framing combines. In a promotion focus, an individual is concerned with advancement, growth, and accomplishment, and the individual's objectives are goals, hopes, ideals, and aspirations. In a prevention focus, an individual is concerned with security, safety, and responsibility, and the individual's goals are duties, obligations, and necessities. Framing concerns that impression of messages may vary according to whether those messages are negatively framed or positively framed, even if the messages is equivalent contents. The first experimental study showed that leader seems to send messages in accordance with regulatory fit. The second experimental study exhibited that followers are more likely to be motivated to work when they receive messages in concert with regulatory fit.

This article reviews concepts and structures of assessment center and discusses how it can be applicable to the Japanese organization. First of all, I explain the basic tenets of assessment center from essential elements, types of simulations and history. Here, it is emphasized that the simulation methods in assessment center are expected to be reliable and valid tool for future behaviors among candidates, especially in case that the past behaviors among them are not available or predictive of the future performance. Secondly, the issue of construct validity is raised with an eye to the MTMM (MultiTrait− MultiMethod) matrix and then a couple of ways to handle this problem are discussed. Finally, I suggest that assessment center methods, involving simulation exercises, are to be useful selection tools among college students who generally have no occupational experiences.

This article reviews the literature on social justice with an emphasis on the subjective properties of justice. The author contends that there are four major perspectives for understanding past research into the history of justice and its future directions: a) the antecedents of justice which identify the criteria and factors of perceptions of fairness, b) the consequences of justice which focus on the effect of fairness perceptions on individual responses, c) the motives for justice which discuss why people are sensitive to fairness, and d) the concerns of justice that highlight the internal and/or external conditions driving people to fairness. The author reviews the vast amount of theoretical and empirical research that underlies each of the 4 approaches mentioned above. Important directions of future research are also discussed.