Title

The Role of Overall Justice Judgments in Organizational Justice Research: A Test of Mediation

Authors

Authors

M. L. Ambrose;M. Schminke

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Abstract

Organizational justice research traditionally focuses on the unique predictability of different types of justice (distributive. procedural, and interactional) and the relative importance of these types of justice on outcome variables. Recently, researchers have suggested shifting front this focus on specific types of justice to a consideration of overall justice. The authors hypothesize that overall justice judgments mediate the relationship between specific justice facets and outcomes. They present 2 studies to test this hypothesis. Study I demonstrates that overall justice judgments mediate the relationship between specific justice judgments and employee attitudes. Study 2 demonstrates the mediating relationship holds for supervisor ratings of employee behavior. Implications for research on organizational justice are discussed.

Journal Title

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volume

94

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

First Page

491

Last Page

500

WOS Identifier

WOS:000264247000013

ISSN

0021-9010

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