“…Research relating to this domain has largely been confined to the US, where fairness of organizational decision making has received much attention in relation to the concept of the psychological contract (Rousseau, 1995), as well as in relation to assessment and selection (Gilliland, 1993(Gilliland, , 1995Bauer, Truxillo, Sanchez, Ferrara & Campion, 2001) and also in the context of performance appraisal (Erdogan, Kraimer, & Liden, 2001). It is widely believed that appraisal systems are by their nature unfair (Levine, 1975), as employers are more concerned with the assessment of performance, whereas employees expect more from the developmental and motivational aspects (Fletcher, 1997).…”