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A 2008 paper I read reviewed literature around perceived justice in incident reporting in organisations.

They constructed the attached figure (image 1) to highlight proposed antecedents and consequences.

For one, they note that organisational justice varies as a function of both formal attributes of decision-making as well as informal/social aspects of decision-making.

For instance, “people perceive greater distributive justice when the distribution rules for allocating outcomes match implicit norms for allocation” (p408).

Three common distribution rules are: (p408)
1)     The contributions rule (those contributing more should receive higher outcomes)
2)     The needs rule (those with greater needs should receive higher outcomes) and
3)     The equality rule (people should receive the same outcomes

Also, of interest is how people “perceive greater procedural justice when they experience procedural rules indicative of fair play” (p408), because fair play rules signal the value of belonging to or working on behalf of the organisation.

Procedural rules as part of organisational justice are discussed in image 2; eight in total in this paper.

Note – these rules aren’t necessarily the formalised and written types, but rather relational/rules of social interaction.

Authors: Weiner, B. J., Hobgood, C., & Lewis, M. A. (2008). The meaning of justice in safety incident reporting. Social science & medicine, 66(2), 403-413.

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