AUTHOR=Haines Victor Y. , Patient David , Guerrero Sylvie 

TITLE=The fairness of human resource management practices: an assessment by the justice sensitive

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 15 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355378

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355378

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Although fairness is a pervasive and ongoing concern in organizations, the fairness of human resource management practices is often overlooked. This study examines how individual differences in justice sensitivity influence the extent to which human resource management practices are perceived to convey principles of organizational justice. Using a matching sample of 283 university students from three academic units in two countries, justice sensitivity was positively associated with subsequent assessments of the justice contents of 61 human resource management practices. The distinction between self-oriented and other-oriented justice sensitivities was helpful in determining perceptions of these human resource management practices and of a subset of pay-for-performance practices. The findings inform current research about the meanings borne by human resource management practices, and also increase understanding of entity judgment formation as an important aspect of systemic justice.