Effects Of Attributional Style On Organizational Justice And Attributional Bias In Justice Judgment

When justice became the demand of harmonious society,justice has been the focus of the whole society,including researchers of I/O psychologist and human resource management specialist.A large number of studies are related the effects of justice on many outcome organizational variables,such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment,job performance,turnover intention and so on.There are no systematic theories on the forming of justice yet through the review of the related literature in justice fields.The studies on justice from attribution perspective were quite scarce,although there have been fragmentary studies since 1980's.However, these fragmentary studies will contribute to explain the mechanism of justice.This study depended on the methodology of questionnaire and experiment, including two parts.Part one studied the status of organizational justice and the relationship between organizational justice and organizational attributional style.Part two studied the relationships between locus of causality and justice judgment.And found attributional bias in justice judgment process.The result show:(1) significant differences were found on demographic variables,such as gender,nature of organization and organization size,but not yet between age,tenure,education and position.(2) Significant positive relationships were found between organizational attributional style and justice,between organizational attributional style and distributive justice,between internality and controllability of organizational attributional style and justice and its three dimensions. While significant negative relationship was found between stability of organizational attributional style and interpersonal justice.(3) Organizational attributional style can significantly predict distributive justice.Internality of organizational attributional style can significantly predict justice and procedural justice.Internality and stability of organizational attributional style together predict interpersonal justice.(4) Internality has significant positive relationship with justice,while,externality has significant negative relationship with justice.(5) Self-serving bias was found when subjects attributed for their own incident during justice judgment,while actor-observer bias was found when in injustice circumstance.