Title: Justice, Fairness and Employee Engagement | Ideas for Leaders
Headings: Justice, Fairness and Employee Engagement
Justice, Fairness and Employee Engagement
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Content: employees’ perceived fairness of organizational outcomes that they receive. In other words, are they getting back as much as they are putting in? Procedural justice: employees’ perceived fairness of the processes by which outcomes are allocated. Interactional justice: employees’ perceived fairness of the interpersonal treatment they receive from authority figures (such as dignity, respect, etc.) Positive changes in these forms of justice were found to be strongly related to job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment. In particular, procedural justice was more strongly related to employee attitudes than other types of justice. Previous research in this area has focused primarily on US workers, and the results have suggested that negative changes in fairness perceptions have a stronger impact on employee attitudes than positive changes. This study, however, showed the opposite;