PT Unknown AU Warszta, T TI Application Of Gilliland’s Model of Applicants’ Reactions To TheField Of Web-Based Selection PY 2012 PU Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel WP https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00008734 LA en DE fairness; selection; internet; web-based selection; procedural justice; Personalauswahl; internetbasierte Personalauswahl; Prozedurale Gerechtigkeit AB This doctoral thesis focuses on the perceived fairness of web-based selection proce-dures. Fairness in this respect is analyzed from an applicant’s perspective utilizing the frame-work of Organizational Justice Theory. Organizational Justice evaluates organizational behav-ior from the affected individual’s point of view. Gilliland (1993) applied this theory to per-sonnel selection proposing ten rules of procedural justice which make up a fair selection pro-cedure – from an applicant’s point of view. The first decade of the new millennium saw the rise of the internet as a medium for personnel recruitment and selection. Compared to conventional selection methods web-based selection comprises several contingencies like the lack of personal contact, the high degree of standardization, or the transmission of highly confidential data across the data networks. Therefore, web-based selection and recruitment poses a brand new field of research. This thesis examines the fairness of web-based personnel selection procedures using Gilliland’s (1993) model of applicants’ reactions. Research into the fairness of selection is summarized and discussed, focusing especial-ly on studies into the fairness of web-based selection procedures. Based on current research findings propositions for future research are made and partly put into practice. In a field study with 354 applicants for an apprenticeship program a web-based selec-tion procedure is evaluated using Gilliland’s (1993) model of applicants’ reactions. Results of Partial Least Squares analysis show that treatment of the applicants, opportunity to perform, reconsideration opportunity, and propriety of questions emerge as the most relevant procedur-al justice rules. In a laboratory study surveying a sample of 91 students design and content of a web-based selection form are modified systematically abiding or violating Gilliland’s (1993) pro-cedural justice rules. It is shown that these changes influence participants’ behavioral inten-tions (e.g. pursuit intentions) and that this influence is mediated by the perceived fairness of the selection procedure as postulated in Gilliland’s model of applicants’ reactions. The impact of these findings for research and practice is discussed. PI Kiel ER