Justice Orientation and its Measurement: Extending the Deontological Model

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Justice Orientation and its Measurement
Extending the Deontological Model

• Deborah E. Rupp
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Zinta S. Byrne
• Colorado State University
• Patrick L. Wadlington
•     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SIOP 2003, Orlando
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4 Studies Surrounding the Construct of Justice
Orientation

• Study 1 Scale development construct
  validity
• Study 2 Justice orientation as an
• antecedent to justice perceptions
• Study 3 moderating effect of justice
• orientation on the
• relationship between justice
• perceptions and workplace
• outcomes

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Deontological Model of Organizational Justice

• The deontological model of organizational justice
  (Folger, 2001 1998) argues that justice is a
  moral virtue held by all individuals that assists
  in regulating interpersonal behavior.
• We ask Are there individual differences in the
  extent to which this justice virtue is held??

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Support for the Model

• We will make personal sacrifices in order to hold
  another accountable for an injustice
• Even if we are not the victim
• Even if the victim is anonymous
• Even when we have nothing to gain from the
  situation
• Kahneman, Knetsch, Thaler, 1986
• Turillo, Folger, Lavelle, Umphress, Gee, 2002
• the deontological effect

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Extending the Model

• We propose that while all individuals may
  internalize justice as a moral virtue, there may
  be individual difference in the extent to which
• Individuals internalize justice
• Individuals are attentive to issues of justice
  around them
• Justice Orientation

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Justice Orientation Defined

• Two proposed sub-facets
• Internalization Extent to which a individuals
  internalize justice as a moral virtue
• Attentiveness Extent to which individuals are
  attentive to issues of fairness around them

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Hypotheses

• Justice Orientation will exert its effects in
  multiple places in the justice process

Justice Perceptions
Job Performance Attitudes
Justice Orientation
Justice Orientation
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of JOS 2-Factor
Structure using Study 2 Data  
Study 1 Scale Development and CFA
 
Table 4
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Study 1 Convergent/Discriminant Validity

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Study 2 Justice Orientation as an Antecedent of
Fairness Perceptions
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Study 3 Justice Orientation as a Moderator of
the Justice-Work Outcome Relationship
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Interaction between Interactional Justice and
Internalization in the Prediction of Satisfaction
 
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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Deborah E. Rupp
• derupp_at_uiuc.edu
• Zinta S. Byrne
• zbyrne_at_lamar.colostate.edu
• Patrick L. Wadlington
• wadlingt_at_s.psych.uiuc.edu