Research Article
Co-workers' Justice Judgments, own Justice Judgments and Employee Commitment: A multi-foci approach
Authors:
Florence Stinglhamber ,
Department of Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, BE
David De Cremer
Behavioural Business Ethics at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NL
Abstract
Using a sample of 212 employees, we conducted a study to examine whether employees use their co-workers' fairness perceptions to generate their own justice judgments and to develop their subsequent affective commitment. The conceptual framework used to investigate these linkages is social exchange theory combined with a multiple foci approach. Results of the structural equation modeling analyses revealed that co-workers' procedural justice judgments strengthened employee's own procedural justice judgments, which in turn influenced their affective commitment to the organisation. Similarly, co-workers' interactional justice judgments increased employee's own interactional justice judgments, which in turn impacted on their affective commitment to both the supervisor and the organisation. As a whole, findings suggest that coworkers' justice judgments strengthened employee's affective attachments toward the justice sources by reinforcing employee's own justice perceptions.
How to Cite:
Stinglhamber, F. and De Cremer, D., 2008. Co-workers' Justice Judgments, own Justice Judgments and Employee Commitment: A multi-foci approach. Psychologica Belgica, 48(2-3), pp.197–218. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/pb-48-2-3-197
Published on
01 Jun 2008.
Peer Reviewed
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