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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
What’s the Right Thing to Do? Organizational Justice in a College Classroom
Todd C. Harris
(Department of Management, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, USA)
Abstract: Organizational justice involves the study of people’s perceptions of and reactions to fairness in organizations, and has been shown to relate to a host of important organizational outcomes such as absenteeism, turnover, employee engagement, and job performance. Organizational justice consists of four primary components. Distributive justice focuses on people’s satisfaction with their share of valued organizational outcomes. Procedural justice refers to degrees of satisfaction with the means and processes by which valued organizational outcomes are allocated. Informational justice can be defined as the accuracy, amount and timeliness of information provided to organizational members to explain outcomes and procedures. Interpersonal justice can be defined as the degree of dignity, respect and professionalism accorded to all organizational members. In the present paper, the author, based on his experience consulting with Fortune 500 companies in the area of organizational justice, presents a simple framework through which organizational justice concepts can be extended to college teaching.
Key words: higher education, organizational justice, trust, distributive justice, procedural justice
