How Prevalent Are the Different Types of Organizational Justice Research?

摘要

In his article, Greenberg (2009) classifiedjustice research into four types. Basicresearch uncovers the nature and structureof justice; implication research examinesrelationships of justice with organization-relevant phenomena; intervention researchassesses the efficacy of initiatives designedto cultivate justice; and case study researchdescribes anecdotal applications of justiceinitiatives. As he noted, the justice literatureis predominantly comprised of basic andimplication research, while little work hasput into practice of the knowledge thathas been gained from this research. As aresult, very few examples of interventionand case study research exist. The goalof this commentary is to add numbers to Greenberg's taxonomy of the justiceliterature in order to determine the currentstate of intervention research as well astrends in this research. To do so, we usedthe aforementioned taxonomy to classifyjustice papers that were published duringthe past 15 years. Our methods and resultsare described below.