Organizational commitment

Neuroscience

Social psychology

Economic Justice

Distributive justice

Organizational citizenship behavior

Job satisfaction

Organizational justice

Psychology

Interactional justice

Political science

Meta-analysis

Internal medicine

Medicine

Procedural justice

Perception

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

The correlates of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice were examined using 190 studies samples, totaling 64,757 participants. We found the distinction between the three justice types to be merited. While organizational practices and outcomes were related to the three justice types, demographic characteristics of the perceiver were, in large part, unrelated to perceived justice. Job performance and counterproductive work behaviors, considered to be outcomes of perceived justice, were mainly related to procedural justice, whereas organizational citizenship behavior was similarly predicted by distributive and procedural justice. Most satisfaction measures were similarly related to all justice types. Although organizational commitment and trust were mainly related to procedural justice, they were also substantially related to the other types of justice. Findings from laboratory and field studies are not always in agreement. Future research agendas are discussed.

The Role of Justice in Organizations: A Meta-Analysis