In recent years, the underlying IT growth trends of the 1990s underwent a reversal as the new century dawned. These labor market changes have been reflected in the changing nature of employment. Distributive justice theory suggests employees’ perceptions of the fairness of the outcomes that are received are based on the employees’ inputs. We examine IT professionals’ perceptions of job stabilit...

This study was conducted to examine the mediating role of distributive justice in the relationship between pay design dimensions and job commitment. A survey research method was used to gather 583 usable questionnaires from academic employees who worked in Malaysian public institutions of higher education. The outcomes of testing a mediating model by using a stepwise regression analysis showed ...

Concern with material equality as the central form of distributive justice is a very modern idea. Distributive justice for Aristotle and many other writers for millennia after him was a matter of distributing what each ought to get from merit or desert in some sense. Many, such as Hume, thought material equality a pernicious idea. In the medieval village life of Bodo, villagers knew enough abou...

Few empirical efforts have been devoted to differentiating status and power, and thus significant questions remain about differences in how status and power impact social encounters. We conducted 5 studies to address this gap. In particular, these studies tested the prediction that status and power would have opposing effects on justice enacted toward others. In the first 3 studies, we directly...

observation of justice is one of the most important indexes influencing satisfaction of the personnel of an organization so that perceiving injustice will result in the personnel dissatisfaction thereby leaving negative influence on their performance [38]. this situation also influences the customers’ satisfaction in the service organizations where the personnel have direct and face-to-face con...

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different i...