Seeing the "forest" or the "trees" of organizational justice: Effects of temporal perspective on employee concerns about unfair treatment at work

• Main Authors: Cojuharenco, Irina, Patient, David, BASHSHUR, Michael R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Organizational justice; Fairness; Time; Temporal perspective; Construal level theory; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3132; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4131/viewcontent/CojuharencoPatientandBashshur2011ForestandtreesofJustice.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

What events do employees recall or anticipate when they think of past or future unfair treatment at work? We propose that an employee’s temporal perspective can change the salience of different types of injustice through its effect on cognitions about employment. Study 1 used a survey in which emplo...