2023/07/26 by Lorenza Micacchi, Francesco Vidè, Giorgio Giacomelli +1 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Public Policy and Administration Research #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Accounting and Organizational Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/padm.12952
openalex publication_date 2023/07/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Abstract Regarding organizational justice, performance appraisal (PA) systems are among the most crucial mechanisms shaping the employee work experience. Nonetheless, research has mostly neglected to explain the relationship between the characteristics of PA systems, employees' perceptions of PA justice, and work engagement in the public sector. Based on a combination of observational and experimental data from 11 public sector organizations in Italy, this article aims to unfold the nature of these relationships. Following the recent calls for diversified methodological designs, a combination of structural equation modeling with a discrete choice experiment is provided. The results show that designing PA systems with rater–ratee feedback sessions and calibration mechanisms leads to fairer perceived PAs, with PA justice being associated with public employees' work engagement.