Abstract

Organizational justice researchers have demonstrated that employees are more committed to organizations they believe treat them fairly. Drawing on self-verification theory, five studies showed that the positive relationship between procedural justice and commitment was eliminated among those with low self-esteem. Moreover, results of one study showed that this effect occurred only when self-verification strivings were likely to be salient (i.e., when employees expected their relationships with their organization to be relatively enduring). Finally, an experiment provided evidence that participants' experience of self-verification (feeling known and understood) mediated the interactive effect of procedural justice and self-esteem on their organizational commitment.

Citation

Wiesenfeld, Batia, William Swann Jr., Joel Brockner, and Caroline Bartel. "Is More Fairness Always Preferred? Self-esteem Moderates Reactions to Procedural Justice." Academy of Management Journal 50, no. 5 (October 2007): 1235-1253.

Each author name for a Columbia Business School faculty member is linked to a faculty research page, which lists additional publications by that faculty member.

Each topic is linked to an index of publications on that topic.