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A TEST OF THE GROUP VALUES AND CONTROL MODELS OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICE FROM THE COMPETING PERSPECTIVES OF LABOR AND MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
GIACOBBEMILLER JANE
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1995.tb01749.x
Subject(s) - procedural justice , distributive justice , negotiation , psychology , social psychology , context (archaeology) , interactional justice , economic justice , neutrality , control (management) , test (biology) , distributive property , perception , predictive power , law , economics , microeconomics , political science , management , paleontology , epistemology , neuroscience , philosophy , pure mathematics , biology , mathematics
A path model was developed to determine the predictive power of the group values (Lind & Tyler, 1988) and the self‐interest/control (Thibaut & Walker, 1975) models in the justice judgments of three state impasse resolution procedures for teacher bargaining disputes. Surveys were returned by 90 school superintendents and 74 union presidents from districts that had used the procedures during the last contract negotiations. The group values variables of perceived neutrality of, and trust in, third parties were most predictive of procedural justice judgments. Process control was also predictive of procedural justice judgments, whereas decision control was not. Neither model was predictive of distributive justice judgments. Further, the path analysis clearly indicates the importance in this context of examining procedural and distributive justice from the competing perspectives of labor and management. Labor/management affiliation was strongly related to trust in third parties, perceptions of relative pay, and overall distributive justice judgments.