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Justice in Teams: The Context Sensitivity of Justice Rules Across Individual and Team Contexts 1
Author(s) -
Colquitt Jason A.,
Jackson Christine L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00047.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , procedural justice , social psychology , psychology , economic justice , distributive justice , context (archaeology) , equity (law) , interactional justice , interpersonal communication , organizational justice , control (management) , political science , computer science , organizational commitment , microeconomics , perception , economics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , neuroscience , law , biology
Two empirical studies investigated the context sensitivity of various rules for fostering organizational justice using hypothetical vignettes. Study 1 compared the importance of distributive justice rules (equity, equality, need) and procedural justice rules (process control, decision control, consistency, correctability, accuracy, bias suppression, ethicality) across individual and team contexts. The results showed that team contexts enhanced the importance of equality, consistency, and decision control. Study 2 compared the importance of procedural justice rules across different types of teams. The results showed that the accuracy rule was more important in small teams, while the consistency and bias suppression rules were more important in diverse teams. The importance of other rules, including interpersonal and informational justice, did not vary across the experimental conditions.