Pay Policies & Attributions of Discrimination

18 February 2015

The purpose of the study is to examine the influence pay policies will have on employees' attributions of sources of negative perfromance appraisals and discrimination.



Participants will be presented with a fictitious situation that will compare them to a colleague and include information regarding pay policies and active discrimination against their organization. The situation presented is entirely fictitious and any similarities to reality would have occurred strictly by chance.

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Ethical approval

The University’s Ethics Review Committee for Student Research approved this project on December 6th, 2013

About the researcher

Kelsea Beadman, a student at the University of Guelph, in the Department of Psychology, is conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr. Mike Teed of the William’s School of Business at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec.