What’s Past (and Present) Is Prologue: Interactions Between Justice Levels and Trajectories Predicting Behavioral Reciprocity

Abstract

(2017) What's past (and present) is prologue : interactions between justice levels and trajectories predicting behavioral reciprocity. Journal of Management. Permanent WRAP URL:

How Interpersonal Justice Shapes Legitimacy Perceptions: The Role of Interpersonal Justice Trajectories and Current Experience

“…In order to maintain and strengthen this highquality relationship (Mitchell et al, 2012;Chen et al, 2014), individuals may reciprocate with compliance to the authority (Tyler, 1996;Colquitt et al, 2012;Liang and Li, 2019). With repeated exchanges, there is increasing investment (Cropanzano and Mitchell, 2005;Fortin et al, 2014;Rubenstein et al, 2019), and the relationship matures over time (Blau, 1964;Colquitt et al, 2013). Thus, there should be an interpersonal justice trajectory across exchange episodes (Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019), with corresponding changes in perceived legitimacy.…”

“…With repeated exchanges, there is increasing investment (Cropanzano and Mitchell, 2005;Fortin et al, 2014;Rubenstein et al, 2019), and the relationship matures over time (Blau, 1964;Colquitt et al, 2013). Thus, there should be an interpersonal justice trajectory across exchange episodes (Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019), with corresponding changes in perceived legitimacy.…”

“…We propose that interpersonal justice trajectories may provide independent information that is useful for predicting future perceived legitimacy. Specifically, we assume that individuals will evaluate an improving interpersonal justice trajectory as a signal of the authority's increasing contributions to the exchange relationship, such as increased respect and care (Rubenstein et al, 2019). This evaluation may induce individuals' feelings of gratitude and indebtedness, which strengthen the reciprocal interpersonal relations (Colquitt et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2014) and increase compliance to authority, thus strengthening the perception that the authority is legitimate (Tyler, 1996;Colquitt et al, 2012;Liang and Li, 2019).…”

“…These exchanges are reciprocal (Liang and Li, 2019) and recur over time (Colquitt and Zipay, 2015). Moreover, the individual's experience of justice can fluctuate during individualauthority interactions over time, and this change in information is meaningful to the individual (Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019). Recent advances suggest that justice trajectories (i.e., changes in the experience of fairness over time) exhibit a unique influence on individuals' attitudes and behaviors, such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment (e.g., Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019).…”

“…Moreover, the individual's experience of justice can fluctuate during individualauthority interactions over time, and this change in information is meaningful to the individual (Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019). Recent advances suggest that justice trajectories (i.e., changes in the experience of fairness over time) exhibit a unique influence on individuals' attitudes and behaviors, such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment (e.g., Hausknecht et al, 2011;Rubenstein et al, 2019). The current study aims to improve our understanding of how justice trajectories affect the individual's perception of the authority as legitimate.…”