Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research.

2001/06/01 by Jason A. Colquitt, Donald E. Conlon, Michael J. Wesson +2 · 5,807 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Distributive justice #Economic Justice #Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation #Interactional justice #Interpersonal communication #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Job satisfaction #Law #Organizational citizenship behavior #Organizational commitment #Organizational justice #Perception #Political science #Procedural justice #Psychology #Social psychology #Workplace Spirituality and Leadership

paper · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.425

published in Journal of Applied Psychology 86(3), 425-445 (American Psychological Association)

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Abstract

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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