What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice? Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context

Constanze Eib, Johnny Hellgren, Helena Falkenberg and Magnus Sverke
Additional contact information
Constanze Eib: Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden; Department of Management and Organization, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Magnus Sverke: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2025, vol. 46, issue 2, 496-521

Abstract: There is often a gap between what managers perceive they do in terms of fairness (managers’ justice enactment perceptions) and how fairly employees feel treated by their supervisor (employees’ organizational justice perceptions). This study investigates three managerial actions as potential predictors of congruence in managers’ justice enactment and employees’ justice perceptions. Using individual pay setting as context, the authors hypothesize that goal clarity, continuous feedback, and supervisory credibility predict congruence in justice perceptions (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice). Analyses are based on 124 pay-setting managers with their employees from an industrial company in Sweden. Results reveal that goal clarity, continuous feedback, and supervisor credibility reduce the mean-value difference in justice perceptions between managers and employees. This study broadens the organizational justice literature by contributing with a new way of simultaneously studying justice enactment and justice perceptions to further knowledge on how to facilitate and improve fairness in organizations.

Keywords: Congruence; fairness; justice enactment; organizational justice; pay setting; performance appraisal; self–other agreement; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X241261311 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:46:y:2025:i:2:p:496-521

DOI: 10.1177/0143831X241261311

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic and Industrial Democracy from Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().