Advances in Organizational Justice

by Greenberg, Jerald; Cropanzano, Russell

• ISBN13: 9780804741323
• ISBN10: 0804741328
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books

Summary

This is a state-of-the-science book about organizational justice, which is the study of people's perception of fairness in organizations. The volume's contributors, all acknowledged leaders in this burgeoning field, present new theoretical positions, clarify existing paradigms, and identify future areas of application. The first chapter provides a comprehensive framework that integrates and synthesizes key concepts in the field: distributive justice, procedural justice, and retributive justice. The second chapter is a full theoretical analysis of how people use fairness judgments as means of guiding their reactions to organizations and their authorities. The subsequent two chapters examine the conceptual interrelationships between various forms of organizational justice. First, we are given a definitive review and analysis of interactional justice that critically assesses the evidence bearing on its validity. The next chapter argues that previous research has underemphasized important similarities between distributive and procedural justice, and suggests new research directions for establishing these similarities. The three following chapters focus on the social and interpersonal antecedents of justice judgments: the influence that expectations of justice and injustice can have on work-related attitudes and behavior; the construction of a model of the determinants and consequences of normative beliefs about justice in organizations that emphasizes the role of cross-cultural norms; and the potential impact of diversity and multiculturalism on the viability of organizations. The book's final chapter identifies seven canons of organizational justice and warns that in the absence of additional conceptual refinement these canons may operate as loose cannons that threaten the existence of justice as a viable construct in the organizational sciences.

Author Biography

Jerald Greenberg is Abramowitz Professor of Business Ethics at The Ohio State University. His most recent publication is the seventh edition of Behavior in Organizations. Russell Cropanzano is Associate Professor and Industrial/Organizational Section Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributor Biographies	xi
List of Figures and Tables	xvii
Fairness Theory: Justice as Accountability	1	(55)
Robert Folger
Russell Cropanzano
Fairness Heuristic Theory: Justice Judgments as Pivotal Cognitions in Organizational Relations	56	(33)
E. Allan Lind
Interactional (In)justice: The Sacred and the Profane	89	(30)
Robert J. Bies
Procedural and Distributive Justice Are More Similar than You Think: A Monistic Perspective and a Research Agenda	119	(33)
Russell Cropanzano
Maureen L. Ambrose
Anticipatory Injustice: The Consequences of Expecting Injustice in the Workplace	152	(27)
Debra L. Shapiro
Bradley L. Kirkman
When Do Elements of Procedural Fairness Make a Difference? A Classification of Moderating Differences	179	(34)
Joel Brockner
Grant Ackerman
Gregory Fairchild
Ethnic Diversity and the Viability of Organizations: The Role of Procedural Justice in Bridging Differences	213	(32)
Yuen J. Huo
Tom R. Tyler
The Seven Loose Can(n)ons of Organizational Justice	245	(28)
Jerald Greenberg
Index	273