Abstract
The research literature in organizational justice has examined in some detail the dynamics and consequences of justice judgments based on direct experiences with fair and unfair authorities, but little is known about how people form justice judgments on the basis of reports of injustice by others or how group discussion changes justice judgments. The present study examined the consequences of distributed injustice, in which all members of a group experience some denial of voice, and concentrated injustice, in which one member experiences repeated denial of voice and others do not. It was predicted and found that mild personal experiences of injustice are a more potent source of group impressions of injustice than are reports of more severe injustice experienced by others. In both conditions, group ratings of unfairness were more extreme than were the mean of individual ratings either before or after discussion.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1998 |
Funding
We thank Tom Tyler, Maura Belliveau, and Daniel Gigone for helpful comments. Research reported in this article was supported by grants to Allan Lind from the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, SBR-96-96244, and to Leigh Thompson from the National Science Foundation, SES-9210298 and PYI-9157447. Address correspondence and reprint requests to E. Allan Lind, Fuqua School of Business, Box 90120, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0120. 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management