Chapter 2: When Employees Are Powerless And Life Is Unfair: Effects on the Relationship of LMX to Change Commitment

We introduce a new model in the context of organizational change examining the role of follower perceptions of their power and the relationships of Leader–member Exchange (LMX) and Organizational Justice (Procedural, Distributive, Interactional). In our model, justice is proposed to mediate the relationship between LMX and commitment to change and employee power is proposed to moderate the relationship between justice and commitment (Affective and Normative). We test our model employing a panel design with a sample of 222 employees indicating their organizations were undergoing change and found significant support for our hypothesized relationships.