Personality Correlates of Equity Sensitivity for Samples of Canadian, Bulgarian, and Mexican Businesspeople

Abstract

Equity sensitivity concerns perceptions of what is or is not equitable. Previous studies have shown that equity sensitivity is associated with one's relationship orientation. Relationships are also influenced by personality variables. As both personality and equity sensitivity influence relationships, equity sensitivity and personality may be correlated also; so, this study examined that possibility. The relations of equity sensitivity with 3 personality variables were explored across three culturally different samples. This allowed validation across cultures of the proposed equity-personality relationship which has traditionally been assessed in a U.S. setting. In general, personality-equity sensitivity relationship was not supported across the samples.

Organizational justice: The dynamics of fairness in the workplace.

“…For example, Japanese people are more entitled in their equity orientation than Americans (Allen, Takeda, & White, 2005). Efforts to cross-culturally validate the ESI have been undertaken with limited success in Canadian, Bulgarian, and Mexican samples (Mintu-Wimsatt, 2003;Mintu-Wimsatt, Madjourova-Davri, & Lozada, 2008), as well as samples from Taiwan (Wheeler, 2002).…”