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Exploring the Enacted Justice-Experienced Justice-Outcomes Relationship: A Study of the Role of Anticipatory Justice

Lensges, Marcia
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4144-5896
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490352840526766

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2017, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Business: Business Administration.
Over the last several decades, there has been a plethora of research regarding employees’ experienced justice perceptions, resulting in a robust understanding of their consequences on employee attitudes and behaviors (for a recent meta-analysis, see Colquitt, Rodell, Zapata, Wesson, Scott, Long, & Conlon, 2013). Still, important “black box” elements functioning within these relationships remain underexplored. My research focused on the important role that anticipatory justice plays in unpacking this black box by presenting and testing a model of the proposed cyclical anticipatory-experienced justice relationship. I examined five key understudied elements that potentially impact employee justice perceptions. (1) The role of supervisor-enacted justice behaviors. (2) The role of anticipatory justice perceptions. (3) The role of entity- and event-based anticipatory justice perceptions. (4) The role of justice inconsistency. (5) Justice as an antecedent to early leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship formation. Relying on structural equation modeling via path analysis, my research results suggested that supervisor-enacted justice and employee-experienced justice are two distinct, but positively-related, constructs. Anticipatory informational and interpersonal (but not distributive and procedural) justice were supported as moderators of this relationship; high anticipatory justice increased the strength of the enacted-experienced justice relationship. No support was found for differences in entity- and event- based anticipatory justice effects. However, justice inconsistency was found to moderate the level 2 experienced-to-anticipatory justice relationship; high justice inconsistency strengthened this relationship. Although all four justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, informational, and interpersonal) were hypothesized as related to early LMX development, only procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice were supported. Findings of the study suggested that additional research is needed, for example, to better understand anticipatory informational and interpersonal justice as moderators and the impacts of justice inconsistency.
Suzanne Masterson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Gail Fairhurst, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Joel Koopman, Ph.d. (Committee Member)
128 p.
Organizational Behavior
anticipatory justice; organizational justice; leader-member exchange; enacted justice; justice inconsistency

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  • Lensges, M. (2017). Exploring the Enacted Justice-Experienced Justice-Outcomes Relationship: A Study of the Role of Anticipatory Justice [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490352840526766

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lensges, Marcia. Exploring the Enacted Justice-Experienced Justice-Outcomes Relationship: A Study of the Role of Anticipatory Justice. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490352840526766.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lensges, Marcia. "Exploring the Enacted Justice-Experienced Justice-Outcomes Relationship: A Study of the Role of Anticipatory Justice." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490352840526766

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