Beyond Organizational Justice: An Integrative Approach to Organizational Fairness

Several attempts have been made to view and examine the relationship between the components of fairness and advance a preliminary global perspective. As described in the previous chapter, some of them have dealt with organizational justice and its components. This chapter, however, goes beyond organizational justice alone and looks at the relationships among the components of fairness that do not include just the dimensions of organizational justice. Conceptualizing organizational fairness beyond organizational justice is one of the more important contributions of this book. Another important contribution of this chapter is that it allows us to understand the relationships between components of fairness and then the need for a more global perspective of organizational fairness as a possible higher-level concept composed of lower-level fairness constructs. The review begins with a consideration of cases that include two or three of the fairness components advanced in this book, and as well as in a few other studies. The review covers the relationship between a given component of fairness and the other com-ponent(s) advanced in this book. In some examples, the relationships that involve two or more components of fairness are examined, without an integrative approach being advanced directly. The last section of this chapter, and an important one, focuses on works that promoted an integrative and global approach to organizational fairness directly.