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Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research.
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The field of organizational justice continues to be marked by several important research questions, including the size of relationships among justice dimensions, the relative importance of different justice criteria, and the unique effects of justice dimensions on key outcomes. To address such questions, the authors conducted a meta-analytic review of 183 justice studies. The results suggest that although different justice dimensions are moderately to highly related, they contribute incremental variance explained in fairness perceptions. The results also illustrate the overall and unique relationships among distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice and several organizational outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction, organizational commitment, evaluation of authority, organizational citizenship behavior, withdrawal, performance). These findings are reviewed in terms of their implications for future research on organizational justice.
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“The organisational justice literature suggests this model generates predictable failure modes: employees disengage from security perceived as externally imposed and disconnected from welfare, and perceived injustice correlates with withdrawal, deviance, and counterproductive behaviour [12].”
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“Organisational justice theory demonstrates that perceptions of procedural and interpersonal fairness significantly influence commitment and reduce counterproductive behaviour [12].”
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“These aspects of justice are distinct but correlated [10].”
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“Receiving a thorough explanation (informational justice) is important in helping people to assess whether the decision-making procedure is just (procedural justice) [10].”
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“According to Colquitt and others, justice perceptions can be broken down into several aspects or antecedents [10].”
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“According to the literature on justice perceptions above, we should expect to find correlations between fair process and deserved outcome , understanding and fair process , appropriateness of factors and deserved outcome , and appropriateness of factors and fair process [10].”
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“a 2001 meta-analysis of 45 studies in a variety of organisational and institutional settings reported a correlation coefficient of 0.48 for the same constructs [10]”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O. L. H., & Ng, K. Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2001-06
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 425-445
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2096320953
- Cited by
- 5,942
- References
- 243
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- FWCI
- 7.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Employee Performance and Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- organizational justice, distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice, perceived fairness, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, withdrawal behavior, employee performance
- MeSH terms
- Decision Making, Humans, Internal-External Control, Job Satisfaction, Personnel Management, Research Design, Social Justice, Organizational Culture, Endpoint Determination
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