Title

The precursors and products of justice climates: Group leader antecedents and employee attitudinal consequences

Authors

Authors

D. Mayer; L. Nishii; B. Schneider;H. Goldstein

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Pers. Psychol.

Keywords

PROCEDURAL JUSTICE; ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE; CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; ABUSIVE SUPERVISION; JOB-SATISFACTION; MODEL; PERSONALITY; FAIRNESS; OUTCOMES; TEAMS; Psychology, Applied; Management

Abstract

Drawing on the organizational justice, organizational climate, leadership and personality, and social comparison theory literatures, we develop hypotheses about the effects of leader personality on the development of 3 types of justice climates (e.g., procedural, interpersonal, and informational) and the moderating effects of these climates on individual-level justice-attitude relationships. Largely consistent with the theoretically derived hypotheses, the results showed that leader (a) Agreeableness was positively related to procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice climates; (b) Conscientiousness was positively related to a procedural justice climate; and (c) Neuroticism was negatively related to all 3 types of justice climates. Further, consistent with social comparison theory, multilevel data analyses revealed that the relationship between individual justice perceptions and job attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction, commitment) was moderated by justice climate such that the relationships were stronger when justice climate was high.

Journal Title

Personnel Psychology

Volume

60

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

929

Last Page

963

WOS Identifier

WOS:000250946800005

ISSN

0031-5826

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