Procedural and Distributive Justice: The Judges, The Litigants, The Processes Versus Productivity and Quality of Work Life in the Organization

WURIM, BEN PAM

Department of Business Studies

Plateau State University, Bokkos, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

E-mail: wurimpam@yahoo.com                  

ABSTRACT

Procedural Justice (PJ) and Distributive Justice (DJ) are components of the criminal system that concern the steps taken to reach the determination of guilt, punishment and the distribution of outcomes, rewards or other conclusion of law. The main thrust of this paper is to review extant research and theories on procedural and distributive justice and to consider their impact on HR productivity and organizational effectiveness. Existing conceptual contributions and real life researches show that both PJ and DJ can be reasons for organizational behavior. Both components of organizational justice were found to affect employee Productive Work Behavior (PWBs) like performance, trust, job satisfaction and organizational commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCBs) which increased HR productivity and organizational effectiveness. Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWBs) like absenteeism and withdrawal, emotional exhaustion, job stress and burnout, fear, distrust, job dissatisfaction which ultimately lowered performance, employee productivity and organizational effectiveness. The paper concludes that organizational justice components (PJ & DJ) are key antecedents to promoting HR Productivity and organizational effectiveness. As a result, the paper recommends the establishment of a fair and popular grievance process for handling employee grievances and the encouragement of organizational managers and supervisors to support workplace fairness.