CHANGE THE CRITERIA AFTER THE DECISION
Transparent criteria may allow unsuccessful employees to understand what happened.
Avoid creating this expectation.
Unfortunately, the research…
Research territory
Organizational-justice research examines how people evaluate procedures, treatment, explanations, and the consistency with which rules and decisions are applied.
Anchor: procedural justice; evaluation consistency; informational justice.
Seed Claim Library for FAIRNESS: FAIRNESS-001, FAIRNESS-002, FAIRNESS-003. These are root-level research propositions, not an assertion that any one Claim maps one-to-one to this joke.
This static edition exposes the research territory and Seed Claim Library, not a finalized evidence verdict for this specific joke. Study-level citations, claim confidence, and evidence-change history will appear only after the research Machine completes its publication gate. The joke is never evidence.
The research hook identifies mechanisms to investigate. It is not a claim that the literature literally tested this Directive.
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