TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Effects of Perceived Responsibility, Injury Severity, and Injury Target on Discipline Severity
JO  - Human performance
A1  - Shao, Ruodan
A1  - Perlow, Richard
SP  - 41
EP  - 41
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
N2  - We examined the effects of injury severity, injury target, and perceived responsibility on supervisors' discipline severity following a rule violation. Participants made discipline judgments after reading scenarios describing work rule violations. Data revealed an Injury Severity x Injury Target interactive effect on discipline severity. Respondents disciplined rule violators more severely when the behavior caused a serious coworker injury than when the violating behavior caused a minor coworker injury. Discipline severity decreased as the severity of the injury the rule violator experienced increased. That finding goes against conventional wisdom stating that a positive linear relation exists between the extent of an injury and discipline severity and suggests that supervisors might not make all discipline judgments in a simple, linear fashion.<p />
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SN  - 0895-9285
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08959280903400184
ID  - ref1
ER  -