Equity versus equality norms of justice and organisational commitment: the moderating role of gender

Ramamoorthy Nagarajan () and Stringer Donna
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Ramamoorthy Nagarajan: School of Business Administration, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Houston-Victoria, Houston, United States of America
Stringer Donna: School of Business Administration, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Houston-Victoria, Houston, United States of America

The Irish Journal of Management, 2017, vol. 36, issue 3, 206-220

Abstract: In the current study, using a sample of 467 employees from Ireland, we examined the effects of distributive justice perceptions, based on equity versus equality principles, on two forms of employee commitment: affective and normative. Furthermore, we also tested whether employees’ gender moderated the relationships between these two distributive justice perceptions and the two forms of commitment. Results indicated that equity perceptions positively influenced both forms of commitment and equality perceptions positively influenced only normative commitment. Additionally, results revealed that women reported greater affective and normative commitments than men when equity perceptions were higher than when they were lower. Gender did not moderate the relationship between equality perceptions and normative commitment. Women, however, reported lower affective commitment than men when equality perceptions were lower; there were no differences between men and women on affective commitment when equality perceptions were higher. Implications are discussed.

Keywords: distributive justice; equality norms; equity perceptions; gender; organisational commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/ijm-2017-0008

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