Justice perceptions and reappraisal: A path to preserving employee resilience. Issue 2 (15th March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Holley, Erica; Thiel, Chase; Avey, James
• Is Part Of: Human performance. Volume 36:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 63
• Publication Date: 2023-03-15
• Subjects: Performance -- Periodicals; Psychology, Industrial -- Periodicals; 158.7
• DOI: 10.1080/08959285.2023.2174120
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0895-9285

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Lower levels of organizational justice relative to one's peers can negatively influence an employee's well-being, diminish work satisfaction, and increase apathy. However, not all employees that perceive lower organizational justice respond in the same way. Using affective events theory as a theoretical framework, we draw on the organizational justice, resilience, and emotions literatures to identify a critical factor that may facilitate adaptive responses to lower organizational justice and preserve employee resilience. We propose that cognitive reappraisal, an antecedent-focused emotional regulation strategy, may attenuate the negative impact of lower organizational justice on employee resilience, and ultimately, protect other critical employee outcomes (i.e employee psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and citizenship behavior). Across two large field surveys of employees, we find support for our model.