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The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice

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Caza, A; Caza, BB; Lind, EA
Published in: Journal of Management Education
August 1, 2011

Treating employees fairly produces many positive outcomes, but evidence suggests that managers' efforts to be fair are often unsuccessful because they emphasize the wrong aspects of justice. Managers tend to emphasize distributive justice, though employees may be most concerned with procedural and interactional justice. Organizational justice theory offers a framework for correcting this problem and assisting managers in their efforts to be fair. To this end, the authors describe the Missed Promotion exercise, a two-person role-play for introducing students to organizational justice theory. It provides a way to have students experience the importance of organizational justice, while teaching them about the three dimensions of justice and why managers often fail to be perceived as fair. Although the Missed Promotion exercise is simple enough to be completed in a single class session with students of any level, it reliably produces realistic responses and experiences, which allows for a useful discussion of the role of organizational justice in managerial fairness. © The Author(s) 2011.

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Journal of Management Education

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1552-6658

ISSN

1052-5629

Publication Date

August 1, 2011

Volume

35

Issue

4

Start / End Page

537 / 563

Related Subject Headings

  • 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 1503 Business and Management
  • 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
 

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Caza, A., Caza, B. B., & Lind, E. A. (2011). The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice. Journal of Management Education, 35(4), 537–563. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562910381875
Caza, A., B. B. Caza, and E. A. Lind. “The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice.” Journal of Management Education 35, no. 4 (August 1, 2011): 537–63. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562910381875.
Caza A, Caza BB, Lind EA. The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice. Journal of Management Education. 2011 Aug 1;35(4):537–63.
Caza, A., et al. “The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice.” Journal of Management Education, vol. 35, no. 4, Aug. 2011, pp. 537–63. Scopus, doi:10.1177/1052562910381875.
Caza A, Caza BB, Lind EA. The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice. Journal of Management Education. 2011 Aug 1;35(4):537–563.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of Management Education

DOI

EISSN

1552-6658

ISSN

1052-5629

Publication Date

August 1, 2011

Volume

35

Issue

4

Start / End Page

537 / 563

Related Subject Headings

  • 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 1503 Business and Management
  • 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy