PSY255 - Exam 3 Flashcards
(90 cards)
Consequences of Injustice
- Retaliation
- Negative emotions
- Lower satisfaction
- Lower commitment
- Less OCBs
- Lower performance
- Work and job withdrawal
Organizational Justice
Distributive: What I get, rewards/resources/workload
Procedural: how it was decided
Informational: how it was described before and explained afterward
Interpersonal: how the decision maker acted
Distributive Justice
Perceived fairness of the outcomes of a decision to organizational members. (are outcomes distributed fairly?)
3 norms:
-Equity (according to contributions, performance, seniority, ability)
-Equality (everyone the same)
-Need (according to need or preference)
Interactional Justice
Perceived fairness of how employees are treated by employer. (how was I treated when decisions were made?)
2 components:
-Interpersonal justice: treating people with respect/politeness/dignity
-Informational Justice: providing adequate information about the decision-making process
Procedural Justice
Perceived fairness of the process by which decisions are made. (is the process of making decisions fair?)
Leventhal’s 5 Rules for Procedural Justice:
-Consistency: process is applied consistently across people and time.
-Bias Suppression:decision-makers are neutral
-Accuracy of Information: process based on accurate information.
-Ethicality: the process upholds personal standards of ethics and morality.
-Representation: all groups affected by the decision are heard from.
Voice Opportunity
Having the possibility of challenging/influencing/expressing an objection to a process/outcome.
–Weekly feedback forms, writing a letter to a company after poor service.
Employee Voice
Discretionary communication of work-related ideas and suggestions with the intention to improve org.
-Voice efficacy and voice safety predict voice, then individual outcomes and organization outcomes are the results.
Voice
Linked to each type of justice.
- formal and informal
- does not hold with “sham” or “pseudo” voice
Effects of having voice
Increase fairness perceptions of the decision-making procedure.
Satisfaction with the outcomes.
Positive attitudes toward the decision.
Effects of being denied voice
Frustration/disengagement/turnover/intro-group conflict/decreased fairness perception of the decision-making procedures.
Restoration of Justice
Organizational remedies; ways to atone for perceived injustice:
- instrumental remedies: provide economic or direct benefits in atonement
- punitive remedies: punish the transgressor, the perpetrator suffers.
Demographics
race/ethnicity/age/gender
Background
education level/function/tenure
Personal characteristics
personality/beliefs/values: variation based on any attribute people use to tell themselves that another person is different.
Inclusion
The degree to which individuals feel safe, valued, and able to be authentic at work both as individuals and as members of various groups.
Diversity
Surface (demographics) level vs. deep (attitudes/beliefs) level diversity and the consideration of time.
-Surface-level effects on group cohesion and performance disappear over time as compared to deep-level diversity.
Discrimination-and-fairness perspective
Legal mandates - if I don’t follow law, I will get in trouble
Access-and-legitimacy perspective
Good public/social relations - makes more attractive employer. (it looks better if I follow these rules).
Learning-and-effectiveness perspective
Makes the org. more effective and more profitable. (it is economically rewarding to follow these rules).
Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) process
Attract those who see themselves as similar to those in the organization.
Selection is a process of reducing diversity in KSAOs.
Attrition of those who do not fit, are dissimilar.
Effects of diversity on org.s
Diversity leads to better problem-solving, greater conflict, greater creativity, less cohesion.
Value in Diversity Hypothesis
Diversity helps to make stronger team:
- better access to info
- enhances problem solving
- broader range of knowledge/experience –> better decision making
- most valuable for tasks requiring creativity
Relational Demography Hypothesis
The relative makeup of various demographic characteristics in particular work groups.
Dissimilarity affects groups conflict and cooperation negatively and leads to more negative attitudes, turnover, etc.
Similarity-attraction
- people are attracted to others with similar characteristics.
- if in a group that is similar, will have greater cooperative behaviors.