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Ethics, Values, and Organizational Justice: Individuals, Organizations, and Beyond

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This paper seeks to advance our thinking about values and justice by studying the relationship between these constructs at the organizational level. We hypothesize that collective perceptions of moral values in organizational settings will influence collective perceptions of justice. Survey results from 619 individuals in 108 departments strongly support our hypothesis that collective values influence perceptions of both procedural and overall justice climate. We discuss these results, and their implications for thinking about relationships between moral values and justice at even higher levels of analysis such as society overall.

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Schminke, M., Arnaud, A. & Taylor, R. Ethics, Values, and Organizational Justice: Individuals, Organizations, and Beyond. J Bus Ethics 130, 727–736 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2251-3

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