The Conceptual Framework of Organizational Fairness

Aaron Cohen
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Aaron Cohen: University of Haifa

Chapter 1 in Fairness in the Workplace, 2015, pp 3-17 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Fortin (2008) raised two interesting questions about organizational fairness. First, he asked, “Why does fairness matter to people?” and second, “How do people make fairness judgments?” Both questions are important for our understanding of organizational fairness, since they may be interrelated. The level of willingness to take justice into account may influence the way judgments about justice are made. While there is no consensus about the definition of organizational fairness, several theories have attempted to deal with the issue of how evaluations about it are formed. One of the more thorough works is that of Cropanzano, Byrne, Bobocel, and Rupp (2001a), who argued that the distinction between process and content provided by motivation theories fits quite well as a framework for classifying theories of fairness. They called these two types of theories “process theories” and “content theories,” correspondingly.

Keywords: Procedural Justice; Equity Theory; Organizational Politics; Content Theory; Organizational Justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137524317_1

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