Title: Workplace Justice Influences Employee and Organizational Health – LeadershipStrength.com
Headings: Workplace Justice Influences Employee and Organizational Health
Workplace Justice Influences Employee and Organizational Health
Workplace Justice Motivates
Workplace Justice: The Sixth Element of Employee Motivation
The Three Drivers of Workplace Fairness
Employees’ Negative Reactions to Unfairness
Employees Talk
Workplace Fairness Boosts Morale
Unfairness Can Make Employees Sick
Unfairness Hurts Organizations
The Direct Supervisor is Crucial

Content: To evaluate fairness, employees need to understand your standards or rationale. Interactional justice – Fairness in how you treat employees during the implementation of policies, procedures, processes, and outcomes. [ 3] Employees need to be treated with dignity, compassion, caring, and respect. To perform at their best, employees need fair treatment in the distribution of outcomes, the decision-making process, and the way they’re treated. When they don’t get this, they react in negative and sometimes unexpected ways. Employees’ Negative Reactions to Unfairness
Silva et al. wrote that employees’ perception of workplace fairness is influenced by how their co-workers are treated. They’ll react negatively when they witness unfairness even when they don’t have a relationship with affected co-workers. [ 4]
And when they’re the target of unfairness, employees’ negative reactions are much greater than when it’s someone else. [ 5]
The type and intensity of the reaction vary depending on the individual employee, the specifics of the unfairness incident, and the leader’s ability to manage the employee’s expectations and emotions as well as his or her own.