Chapter 3: Moving Beyond (In)Justice Perceptions: Examining the Roles of Experience and Intensity

Organizational justice has been the focus of an extensive amount of research over the past 30 years. During this time, the study of organizational justice has been dominated by employee perceptions of (in)justice. Central research issues have included identifying what is being appraised, how it is being appraised, under what circumstances appraisals are likely to occur, and how these appraisals are related to employee attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Colquitt, Conlon, Wesson, Porter, & Ng, 2001; Cropanzano, Byrne, Bobocel, & Rupp, 2001). This approach has been ingrained in the literature with the development and pervasive use of standardized scales, which focus on specific sets of fairness criteria (e.g., Colquitt, 2001).