The mediating effects of social exchange relationships in predicting workplace outcomes from multifoci organizational justice

• Published in: Organizational behavior and human decision processes Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 925 - 946
• Main Authors: Rupp, Deborah E, Cropanzano, Russell
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.09.2002; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc
• Series: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Justice; Occupational psychology; Organization and management. Professional relation; Organization theory; Organizational behavior; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social exchange; Studies; Supervisors; Work place; United States > US; Human; Justice; Hierarchic relation; Occupational environment; Social perception; Social interaction; Social exchange
• ISSN: 0749-5978; 1095-9920
• DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00036-5

This study tests a social exchange model of multifoci justice. We compared perceptions of justice emanating from the supervisor to those emanating from the organization as a whole. In presenting our model, we hypothesize that the link between multifoci justice and multifoci outcomes (e.g. performance and OCB) is mediated by the formation of multifoci social exchange relationships. We further expected organizationally focused justice and relationships to predict organizationally relevant outcomes and supervisory focused justice and relationships to predict both supervisory and organizationally relevant outcomes. Findings generally supported our expectations, but more so for interactional justice and less so for procedural justice.