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Gender and Organizational Justice Preferences
Author(s) -
ClayWarner Jody,
Culatta Elizabeth,
James Katie R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/soc4.12094
Subject(s) - distributive justice , economic justice , value (mathematics) , social psychology , sociology , organizational justice , procedural justice , function (biology) , inequality , psychology , demographic economics , gender studies , economics , political science , organizational commitment , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics , machine learning , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , computer science , perception , biology
Despite evidence that women and men possess similar workplace values, debate continues regarding gendered preferences for justice in the workplace. In particular, some have argued that women and men have fundamentally different justice orientations, which lead men to value fair outcomes and women to value fair procedures. Recent research finds that such beliefs may influence managers to reward men with greater monetary rewards than those provided to women. Here, we review this literature and argue that men and women do not have fundamentally different justice orientations. Instead, the few findings of gender difference in preferences for procedural vs. distributive justice in the workplace are a function of status differences between men and women.