Title: Equity Theory - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Equity Theory
Equity Theory
Motivating employees and fostering diversity
Equity theory
Psychological Contracts
Equity Theory
Organizational Justice
2 History of Justice in Organizations
THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF THE APPEARANCE OF NONDURABLE CONSUMER GOODS AND THEIR PACKAGING ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
1.1 Four roles for package appearance
Emotions, Sociology of
Emotion and Equity, Justice, and Exchange
Fairness management
Comparison standards of fairness perceptions
Mortgage Default
Theories of Default
The Why and How of Defending Belief in a Just World
4.3.1 Situational determinants of how people defend BJW
Industrial/Organizational Psychology across Cultures
3.2 Cross-Cultural Differences in How Employees Are Motivated at Work: Process Theories
Fairness management
Perceptions of fairness

Content: Thus, procedural justice, or the fairness of the processes used to determine outcomes, became a major research focus and this has continued into the 21st century. Procedural justice is enhanced by providing employees with opportunities for voice or input into the process and by following fair and consistent rules. In fact, Leventhal suggested a set of rules to follow to ensure procedural justice that included accuracy, ethicality, and representativeness. In the mid- to late 1980s, Bies suggested a third dimension of organizational justice that he called interactional justice. Interactional justice is believed to be related to procedural justice, but in particular it describes how decisions are communicated to employees and focuses on interpersonal treatment. That is, whereas procedural justice focuses on the fairness of organizational procedures involved in decisions, interactional justice deals more with how these decisions are conveyed to employees. There continues to be disagreements among researchers as to the number of independent dimensions of justice. Some believe only in the traditional distinctions between procedural and distributive, where interactional justice is subsumed under procedural justice. Others maintain interactional justice as a third independent dimension of justice. It has also been suggested that interactional justice is composed of two dimensions: (