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What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice? Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0713-4824
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8009-9298
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7214-9486
Number of Authors: 42025 (English)In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, ISSN 0143-831X, E-ISSN 1461-7099, Vol. 46, no 2, p. 496-521Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

There is often a gap between what managers perceive they do in terms of fairness (managers’ justice enactment perceptions) and how fairly employees feel treated by their supervisor (employees’ organizational justice perceptions). This study investigates three managerial actions as potential predictors of congruence in managers’ justice enactment and employees’ justice perceptions. Using individual pay setting as context, the authors hypothesize that goal clarity, continuous feedback, and supervisory credibility predict congruence in justice perceptions (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice). Analyses are based on 124 pay-setting managers with their employees from an industrial company in Sweden. Results reveal that goal clarity, continuous feedback, and supervisor credibility reduce the mean-value difference in justice perceptions between managers and employees. This study broadens the organizational justice literature by contributing with a new way of simultaneously studying justice enactment and justice perceptions to further knowledge on how to facilitate and improve fairness in organizations.

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2025. Vol. 46, no 2, p. 496-521
Keywords [en]
congruence, fairness, justice enactment, organizational justice, pay setting, performance appraisal, self–other agreement, Sweden
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Applied Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-239247DOI: 10.1177/0143831X241261311ISI: 001287274200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85200952019OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-239247DiVA, id: diva2:1936250
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The present study is based on data from the project ‘Legitimacy in Pay-setting: A Psychological Perspective on Work-related Pay-setting and Employee-related Pay-setting’, financed by a grant to Magnus Sverke from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (no. 313002).

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