Believing in a personal just world helps maintain well-being at work by coloring organizational justice perceptions

Johnston, Claire S.; Krings, Franciska; Maggiori, Christian; Meier, Laurenz; Fiori, Marina (2016). Believing in a personal just world helps maintain well-being at work by coloring organizational justice perceptions. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25(6), pp. 945-959. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/1359432X.2016.1192132

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Justice is a core fundamental theme for individuals in organizations. This study suggests that believing the world is just where one gets what one deserves, and deserves what one gets, is an important personal resource that helps maintain wellbeing at work. Further, it suggests that personal belief in a just world, but not general belief in a just world, exerts its influence on well-being through increasing overall justice perceptions of the work environment. Using two waves of data drawn from a large random sample of working adults in Switzerland, results showed that personal belief in a just world at time 1 indeed augmented perceptions of overall organizational justice, and this in turn increased job satisfaction at time 2, that is, 1 year later. As expected, this effect was only evident for personal and not general belief in a just world, highlighting personal belief in a just world as an important yet largely overlooked resource for the work context, and suggesting the need to consider individual’s beliefs about justice as drivers of overall organizational justice perceptions.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Other Institutions > Teaching Staff, Faculty of Human Sciences
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Meier, Laurenz

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

ISSN:

1359-432X

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Language:

English

Submitter:

Claire Suzanne Leeming

Date Deposited:

19 Jan 2017 15:49

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:00

Publisher DOI:

10.1080/1359432X.2016.1192132

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.90742

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/90742

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