Perceived distributive justice and Leader-Member Exchange: An exploration among Dutch and Polish (agency) workers

Wahrgenommene Verteilungsgerechtigkeit und Leader-Member Exchange: Eine Exploration unter niederländischen und polnischen (Leih)Arbeitern

Nicole Torka and Ivy Goedegebure

Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management, 2017, vol. 24, issue 1, 100-123

Abstract: We compare the distributive justice perceptions of agency workers and permanent staff concerning different aspects of HRM. Moreover, we investigate if the supervisor-subordinate relationship quality (Leader-Member Exchange, LMX) influences the relationship between the contract status and distributive justice perceptions. We conducted semi-structured interviews in three Dutch logistics companies and distributed questionnaires among workers performing low-skilled jobs. Results show that a direct relationship between contract status and distributive justice perceptions remains when testing the mediator effect of LMX. Contract status seems partly to determine perceived LMX and, consequently, perceived distributive justice. However, the differences in perceived justice concerning voice, participation and pay between the worker groups change when individual workers perceive high-quality LMX. Thus, not only between group differences might be relevant, but also within group differences.

Keywords: (Polish) temp agency workers; perceived distributive justice; LMX; voice; participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 M5 Y8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.3224/indbez.v24i1.06

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