An Integrative Approach to Organizational Justice

Abstract

Having presented the building blocks of the proposed integrative approach to organizational fairness, we can now examine how they fit together. It should be noted that most of the suggestions for integrating concepts of fairness or developing an integrative approach are based on integrating components of organizational justice. Therefore, a significant portion of this review will be devoted to examining the literature that has applied the integrative approach to fairness only in regard to organizational justice. One reason why we argue that the dimensions of organizational justice represent the integrative approach is that for some time now the dominant approach to fairness has been based on the concept of organizational justice and its components. This is not necessarily disadvantageous for the main contentions of this book. The arguments for why and how to integrate the dimensions of justice in order to represent fairness are also relevant to the approach advanced here, because they can be applied to other concepts besides the dimensions of justice. This is exactly why we review the current research and theories about integrating the dimensions of organizational justice first. These arguments can be relevant to any integrative approach to fairness.