The Relationships Between Justice Perceptions, Trust, and Employee Attitudes in a Downsized Organization

Abstract

The authors examined perceptions of distributive justice, procedural justice, trust, organizational commitment, organizational satisfaction, and turnover intentions among survivors in an organization that had recently completed an organizational downsizing. Results suggested that trust partially mediated the relationship between distributive justice and both organizational satisfaction and affective commitment. Additionally, the relationship between procedural justice and turnover intentions was mediated by trust perceptions.

Keywords:

• employee attitudes
• organizational justice
• trust
• turnover