Event justice perceptions and employees' reactions: perceptions of social entity justice as a moderator.

Full Abstract

Building on 2 paradigms in organizational justice research and on fairness heuristic theory, the author argues that employees' perceptions about the fairness of social entities (their supervisor and their organization) moderate the relationship between their perceptions about the fairness of specific events and their reactions. A survey of 265 supervisor-employee pairs in 4 companies was conducted to test this argument. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that when employees perceived their organization to be generally fair, this perception moderated the relationship between the perceived justice of a particular event and their reactions to the organization (organizational commitment and organization-directed citizenship behavior). In addition, employees' perceptions of the fairness of their supervisor were found to moderate the relationship between the perceived justice of a particular event and their supervisor-directed responses (trust in managers and supervisor-directed citizenship behavior) and their organization-directed responses. The results suggest that employee attitudes and behavior can be better understood when both event justice perceptions and social entity justice perceptions are considered together.PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved.

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Author information

Author/s: Choi, Jaepil (J);

Affiliation: Department of Management of Organizations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong. mnjaepil@ust.hk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: The Journal of applied psychology (J Appl Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-May; vol 93 (issue 3) : pp 513-28

Dates: Created 2008/05/06; Completed 2008/07/29;

PMID: 18457484, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Adult
Attitude
Employment - psychology
Female
Humans
Life Change Events

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