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The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior

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To investigate the relationship between fairness and organizational outcomes, the present study examined the survey responses of government employees at six Federal installations. Indices of procedural and distributive fairness were factor-analytically derived. Multiple regression analyses indicated that both the procedural measures and the distributive measures were significantly related to measures of job satisfaction, evaluation of supervisor, conflict/harmony, trust in management, and turnover intention. Procedural fairness accounted for significantly more variance than distributive fairness in each of these criterion measures, except for turnover intention. These findings are related to conceptual and methodological issues concerning procedural fairness and organizational behavior.

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Alexander, S., Ruderman, M. The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior. Soc Just Res 1, 177–198 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01048015

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