Distributed workgroups are increasingly adopted by global organizations, enabled by technology advances. While social ties and performance of such workgroups have been examined in existing literature, the distinctions in knowledge sharing practices remain blurred. We developed a research model to examine the effects of social ties on knowledge sharing practices through the lens of justice perce...

This study examines the effects of procedural justice perceptions on outcomes in an actual selection context with applicants taking a general mental ability test to gain employment as utility meter readers. Applicant attraction and intention related to the organization were measured at 3 time periods. This allowed us to control for initial levels of outcome variables and the pass–fail result wh...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The capability approach 3. Theories of justice 4. Equality 5. Justification of moral principles and weighting different functionings 6. Rules for aggregating individual welfare into social welfare 7. Prescription and description 8. Social measurement, justice and pragmatism 9. Welfare economics and the criticism of the capability approach 10. Conclusions Glossary Bib...

OBJECTIVES Sickness presenteeism (SP) is postulated as workers' response to their general state of health; hence, SP is expected to affect workers' future health. In the present study, we examined the reciprocal relationship between SP and health in response to job stressors, with specific reference to psychological distress (PD) as workers' state of health. METHODS We conducted mediation ana...

organizational justice is the employee perceptions on fairness and justice in work relationships and behaviors in the organization. organizational commitment is individual’s participation in organization and their sense of belonging to the organization and job. this study was conducted to identify the relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment from the view of adm...

Available online 21 February 2011 Purpose: Theories of procedural justice have facilitated the development of a process-based approach to policing which emphasizes the fairness of the manner in which the police exercise their discretion. The study examines whether procedurally fair behavior by the police affects two types of citizen behavior during encounters: citizen disrespect toward the poli...

the present paper deals with justice in general, but with social justice according to the words and deeds of ‘ali ibn abi talib. the search for justice and truth is considered as the mother of all social values. after the prophet mohamed, imam ali was the best example to great morals and ethics, including justice. he lived for justice and was very firm in his belief that everyone should have a ...

The pharmaceutical sector plays a fundamental role in supporting the economic development of a country. The performance of this sector is influenced by employees’ performance, which can be affected by the way employees perceive fairness at their workplace. Fairness perception can be affected by the equity sensitivity type and the personality traits of employees. The Lebanese context lacks studi...

Holding a public meeting is a frequent method of communicating with community residents during official investigations into possible cancer clusters; however, there has been little formal research into the effectiveness of this method of health communication. This article presents research examining the influence of public meetings held during ongoing cancer cluster investigations in six U.S. c...