Justice Climate and Peer Justice Climate: A Closer Look. (October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Andrew; Cropanzano, Russell; Bagger, Jessica
• Is Part Of: Small group research. Volume 44:Number 5(2013)
• Page Start: 563
• Page End: 592
• Publication Date: 2013-10
• Subjects: justice -- work groups -- performance; Small groups -- Periodicals; Small groups -- Research -- Periodicals; Group Processes -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy, Group -- Periodicals; 302.3405
• DOI: 10.1177/1046496413498119
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1046-4964

Abstract

We provide an empirical examination of peer justice climate, defined as team-level judgments of the fairness with which coworkers generally treat one another, and justice climate, defined as team-level judgments of the fairness with which the team is collectively treated by an authority figure. Based on previous theoretical work, we tested a hierarchical structural model determining that peer justice climate was best represented as three first-order factors, which combine into a single second-order dimension. We found a similar two-level structure for justice climate. We also found that the relationship between peer justice climate and team satisfaction was mediated by cooperative team process.