Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
We outline a theoretical model of the emergence of justice climate in groups, teams, and organizations, and in doing so integrate multiple justice perspectives (e.g., affective events, fairness heuristic, deonance, justice integration, multifoci justice, overall justice). We propose that justice climate is spawned at the event level, where individuals use their emotional reactions to situations as information in forming fairness judgments. Over time, these judgments about various perpetrators--which may include the evaluation of outcomes, procedures, information, and interpersonal treatment--are aggregated to form individual-level stable judgments regarding the fairness of exchange partners with whom employees interact (e.g., supervisors, co-workers, customers). Through socialization and social-information processing, and influenced by organizational structural and social networks, these individual multifoci justice perceptions merge to form (unit-level) shared cognitions of overall justice. The paper concludes with recommendations for empirically testing the model.
Discipline
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Human Resources Management
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
13th Annual Conference on Research on Managing Groups and Teams 2009: Fairness and Groups
City or Country
Ithaca
Citation
Rupp, D. and PADDOCK, Elizabeth Layne.
The Emergence of Justice Climate in Groups, Teams, and Organizations: A Theory of Multilevel Information Aggregation and Judgment. (2009). 13th Annual Conference on Research on Managing Groups and Teams 2009: Fairness and Groups.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1740
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