This document discusses fairness in the workplace and how managers can demonstrate fairness. It defines fairness as including equity, respect, acknowledgement, and increased work production. It explains that employees want equal treatment and rewards for equal work, clear procedures, adequate information about decisions affecting them, and to be treated with dignity. Managers should ensure diversity, flexibility, respect, and support in their organizations. Following proper procedures, performance management, and interpersonal skills can help managers make fair decisions and overcome challenges to perceptions of fairness.

1. Lynda: Practicing Fairness as a Manager
Created by Taylor L. Cannon Business Major at Penn State Mont Alto

2. My Take Away
Fairness and unfairness can be varied between individuals,
but the proper procedures must be in place to make a
decision.

3. What does it mean to be fair in the workplace?
● Fairness in the workplace includes:
○ Equity
○ Respect
○ Acknowledgement
○ Increase in work production

4. Why people perceive things as fair or unfair
● We value fairness and it motivate us to
keeps things fair
● When costs outweigh the benefits
● Trade-offs are involved

5. Your role in Showing Fairness
● Organizations must be:
○ Flexible
○ Diverse
○ Respectful
○ Supportive

6. Distributive Fairness
Employees want to know that if they put in the
same efforts as others, they'll be awarded the
same way.

7. Procedural Fairness
Employees focus on procedures followed to
make a decision, employees are more likely to
perceive it as fair.

8. Informational Fairness
Employees must feel that they are receiving the
proper amount of information about a decision
or process that affects them.

9. Interactional Fairness
Which is the degree people perceive they're
treated with dignity and respect when decisions
are made and things happen.

10. Laws and Regulations
They are created so that no one be
discriminated against or harassed because of
their race, religion, national origin, color or sex

11. Fairness is Essential
● This must never be taken lightly
● It can take a toll on organizations
● There needs to be process
● There needs to be proper performance
management

12. Interpersonal Techniques for Demonstrating Fairness
● The point is that sometimes your actions might but fair
but there's a lot of interpersonal skills that go into being
perceived as fair.
● Consider what others might consider fair and what they
think they might deserve.

13. Making Fair Decisions
How you present the story of your decision-
making process will matter in whether it's
perceived as fair

14. Overcoming Challenges
It's impossible to make every single person
happy all of the time, which means sometimes
people will feel that they're being treated
unfairly, even if you made the right decision, or
followed procedures.