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Procedural justice's relationship with turnover: explaining past inconsistent findings
Author(s) -
Posthuma Richard A.,
Maertz Carl P.,
Dworkin James B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.427
Subject(s) - notice , procedural justice , psychology , social psychology , turnover , economic justice , context (archaeology) , representativeness heuristic , logistic regression , consistency (knowledge bases) , economics , perception , political science , law , management , statistics , paleontology , neuroscience , biology , geometry , mathematics
Despite arguments for a significant negative relationship, there have been ambiguous findings on the empirical relationship between procedural justice and turnover behavior. This study attempts to clarify these past findings by examining the effects of multiple dimensions of procedural justice on the voluntary turnover behavior of nurses in a work‐scheduling context ( N = 190). The advance notice and consistency dimensions were significantly and negatively correlated with turnover behavior. Two dimensions of procedural justice had divergent effects on actual turnover behaviors in a logistic regression model. Advance notice was negatively related to turnover, while representativeness of views was positively related to turnover. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.