Procedural Justice Explanations and Employee Reactions to Economic Hardship: A Field Experiment

In a randomized field experiment involving 173 salaried employees, treatment subjects received an explanation for an ongoing pay freeze. This explained the fairness of the decision process leading to the freeze and the fairness of the implementation of the freeze. The explanation mitigated the effec...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 1994-06, Vol.79 (3), p.455-460
Main Authors: Schaubroeck, John, May, Douglas R, Brown, F. William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
Business and Industrial Personnel
Decisions
Economic crisis
Employee attitude
Employee Attitudes
Employee awards
Employee Turnover
Employees
Experiments
Factors
Field study
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Information
Job Satisfaction
Justice
Labor force
Motivation. Job satisfaction. Attitude
Occupational psychology
Organizational Commitment
Perceptions
Procedural Justice
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Salaries
Social research
Wage levels
Wages & salaries
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Summary:In a randomized field experiment involving 173 salaried employees, treatment subjects received an explanation for an ongoing pay freeze. This explained the fairness of the decision process leading to the freeze and the fairness of the implementation of the freeze. The explanation mitigated the effect of the resultant economic hardship on employee attitudes, turnover intentions, and perceptions of procedural justice.
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.79.3.455