Unterhitzenberger, C orcid.org/0000-0001-5815-9127 and Lawrence, K (2023) Fairness matters: Organisational justice in project contexts. Production Planning and Control. ISSN 0953-7287
Abstract
Organisational justice is an established construct in the context of permanent organisations and relates to perceptions of fairness in the working environment. Justice judgements are context specific and whilst prior research has shown the positive impact of fair treatment on organisations and employees, less is known about organisational justice in projects and the impacts of fair or unfair treatment of project team members. This paper sets out to explore these shortfalls through a qualitative multi-method study. Combining the diaries of ten project team members, with pre- and post-diary interviews, the paper presents dimensions (distributive, procedural and interactional) of organisational justice experienced in the project context, factors influencing project team members justice judgements (sources, timing, delegation, and reflection) and the impact of in-/justice on individuals (ways of working, health and wellbeing, relationships, feelings), projects (project delivery) and organisations (reputation, effectiveness of processes). Policy and practice recommendations are made.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Diary method; fairness; organisational justice; project; project management; temporary organisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Association for Project Management Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2023 11:44 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2024 13:28 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09537287.2023.2251424 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200872 |
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