Questions and Answer About Bullying, Types of Justice and Motivation

Question 1. Workplace bullying demonstrates a lack of which one of the three types of organizational justice?

Question 2 What aspects of motivation might workplace bullying reduce? For example, are there likely to be effects on an employee’s self-efficacy? If so, what might those effects be?

Workplace bullying demonstrates a lack of which one of the three types of organizational justice?

According to Jerald Greenberg, organizational justice is refers to an employee’s perception of their organization behaviors, decisions and actions and how these influence the employees own attitudes and behaviors at work. This term is closely connected to the concept of fairness. Employees who are sensitive to decisions made on by their employers will judge these decisions as unfair or fair. These judgments influence an individual’s behavior and can have a personal effect on the employee and are judged as unfair, lead to workplace deviance.

According to Sungjoo Choi on the article: Organizational Justice and Employee Work Attitudes: The Federal Case stated that organizational scientists have claimed that organizational justice is an essential requirement for effective organizational management.

There are 3 types of organizational justice:

Diagram 1

Types of organizational justice

Distributive justice is the one most strongly related with job satisfaction, trust in management and turnover intention of employees among three attributes of organizational justice. Distributive justice focuses on results and results that are fair for everyone. Distributive justice or economic justice is concerned with giving all members of society a fair share of the benefits and resources available. Some possible criteria of distributive justice ar...

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