Procedural and Distributive Justice: Examining Equity in a University Setting

The concept of organizational justice is important to understanding and predicting organizational behavior. A significant development in the research literature has been the separation of distributive and procedural justice. While much of the research has focused on negative outcomes, this research...

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Published inJournal of business ethics Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 337 - 351
Main Authors Hartman, Sandra J., Yrle, Augusta C., Galle, William P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.07.1999
D. Reidel Pub. Co
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Business ethics
Colleges
Decision making
Distributive justice
Equal opportunities
Equity
Fairness
Gender
Industrial democracy
Information economics
Justice
Merit increases
Organization theory
Organizational behavior
Organizational behaviour
Organizational justice
Participation
Perceptions
Procedural justice
Raises
Social psychology
Studies
Universities
Wage adjustments
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Summary:The concept of organizational justice is important to understanding and predicting organizational behavior. A significant development in the research literature has been the separation of distributive and procedural justice. While much of the research has focused on negative outcomes, this research attempted to verify the presence of both forms of justice in the context of positive outcomes. Subjects completed an instrument designed to measure their perceptions of distributive and procedural justice. The subjects also reported their satisfaction and sense of fairness with their salary increases, their belief that the procedures to award the increases had been followed, and their level of information and agreement regarding the salary program. These measures, along with size of salary increase and gender were examined to determine their impact on the subjects' perceived level of justice. The data support the existence of the two distinct forms of justice, but suggest that procedural justice may, in turn, branch out into two aspects. One category involves being informed, and a second appears to deal with acceptance of procedures. A series of relationships are then considered. Significant gender effects were nonexistent.
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ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1023/a:1006102216883