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Fairness in the workplace: organizational justice and the employment relationship

In: Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations

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  • Melinda Laundon
  • Paula McDonald
  • Abby Cathcart

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Organizational justice theory is concerned with employees’ perceptions of fairness in the workplace. The theory attempts to answer pertinent questions that are considered central to the employment relationship, particularly why and how employees make justice judgements about workplace procedures, outcomes, and interactions and how they respond to these perceptions of fairness or unfairness. Almost 50 years of organizational justice research has demonstrated that employee perceptions of fairness at work influence a range of significant employee and organizational outcomes, including satisfaction, job performance, and organizational citizenship behaviour. This chapter draws on organizational justice scholarship from various disciplinary perspectives to explore how justice theory is relevant to the employment relationship.

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  • Melinda Laundon & Paula McDonald & Abby Cathcart, 2019. "Fairness in the workplace: organizational justice and the employment relationship," Chapters, in: Keith Townsend & Kenneth Cafferkey & Aoife M. McDermott & Tony Dundon (ed.), Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations, chapter 20, pages 295-310, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Peter Hamilton & Oonagh Harness & Martyn Griffin, 2022. "Life during furlough: Challenges to dignity from a changed employment status," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(6), pages 523-544, November.
    2. Kwadwo Atta-Owusu & Rune Dahl Fitjar, 2022. "What motivates academics for external engagement? Exploring the effects of motivational drivers and organizational fairness [The Nature of Academic Entrepreneurship in the UK: Widening the Focus on," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(2), pages 201-218.

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