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The fairness of affi rmative action: In the eye of the beholder
Southern African Business Review
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The fairness of affi rmative action: In the eye of the beholder
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Coetzee, M
Bezuidenhout, M |
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affi rmative action, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, employment equity, equality, discrimination
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The purpose of this study was to identify the major components ofaffi rmative action (AA) fairness from an organisational justice pointof view and to measure the perceptions of employees on AA fairness.9A literature study and an empirical study were conducted. A questionnaire was developed to collect information on respondents’ biographical details and their perceptions of the fairness of AA. 10Using SPSS, principal axis factor analysis was performed on the data, with a Varimax rotation, in order to uncover the diff erent factors related to affi rmative action fairness. Four factors with latent roots greater than unity (Kaiser’s criteria) were extracted from the factor matrix of affi rmative action. The factors postulating affi rmative action fairness included interactional justice, procedural justice (input), procedural justice (criteria) and distributive justice. 11The infl uence and eff ect of the biographical variables on fairness perceptions were determined by comparing the responses of various employee subsets with one another by means of univariate andmultivariate analysis of variance. The results of the t-tests revealedthat staff category and ethnicity have a statistically signifi canteff ect on employees’ perceptions of the distributive justice of AA.Decisions such as granting AA employees token positions, payingunrealistically high salaries to AA managers and appointing lessqualified AA employees play a key role when employees form perceptions of the fairness of AA. This study contributes to a better understanding of the dimensionality of employee perceptions of AA fairness. It should assist organisations with the knowledge required for more eff ective management of AA in the workplace.
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College of Economic and Management Sciences (UNISA)
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2012-05-14
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76400
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Southern African Business Review; Vol 15, No 2 (2011)
1998-8125 1561-896X |
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eng
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76400/66858
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