It's So Hard To Be Fair Summary

BeThis assignment is asked to critique a given article “Why It’s So Hard to Be Fair” by Joel Brockner 2006. Before doing the critique let’s see when the feeling of being fairly treated or not has occur?
Fairness is needed where there is more than one person involving in a task. When a person is alone and carrying out a task individually all by him/herself for his/her own benefits, that person will not feel any unfairness. This means the feeling of being treated fairly or unfairly is the comparison act between the individuals.
In the given article, the author has mentioned several benefits by practicing process fairness such as better cost effective, improve performance of the organization, decrease potential risk of law suits, etc. So firstly let’s look at whether the practice of process fairness actually is that good and are there any limitation to process fairness.
So firstly let’s look at how the process fairness and job
Process fairness does not equal to the overall fairness which means organization may practice process fairness but employees may still think organization is unfair to them if they still think outcome/result is unfair to them even though the process to generate the outcome is fair. Machina, (1989) gave a good example on process fairness and outcome fairness with a mother and two children. Consider a mother has a candy for two of her children and she does not know who to give candy. So she decided to toss a coin to decide who to receive candy. Given that her daughter won the game and get the candy. However, her son still think that his mother is unfair to him because he did not receive candy. In this situation, her son does not care about how fair the process is but only care about the outcome. The similar situation could happen in the organization where employees may think they have been treated unfair because of the outcome of certain