Direct and Indirect Assessments of Organizational Justice: Homogeneity or Harmony?

Abstract

The importance of fairness to practitioners and scholars is evident as, within the past 40 years, fairness has become one of the most studied areas in the organizational sciences. Despite such proliferation, the construct clarity and measurement of fairness are far from settled, as researchers have assessed individuals’ experiences of organizational justice in different ways. In this effort, we draw on measurement theory as we initiate an exploration of whether direct and indirect measures of justice are, indeed, fully interchangeable or if they provide useful, differential, and/or complimentary information when employed in addressing specific research questions.