The Study Of Impact Of Perceived Justice On Cooperative Behaviors In Construction Dispute Negotiations

Construction projects are featured as one-off,long-term and highly complex,and these characteristics leads to the high frequency of construction dispute.To deal with these disputes effectively is of great help to the efficiency and quality of construction projects.Handling through negotiations is comparatively favourable for all the parties involved in construction disputes.Therefore,the investigation about how negotiators can cooperate in construction project dispute is very important.In the field of organizational researches,organizational justice theory is regarded as related with the employee's turnover,organizational commitment,organizational citizenship behavior and performance.However,these researches focused more on the intra-organizational phenomena.In recent years,scholars has been stressing on the importance of inter-organizational justice.What is still unfortunate is,there are still limited researches about justice under the circumstances in construction dispute negotiations.Moreover,in these limited researches,distributive justice is far more popular than the others,which is somewhat quite vague and not enough to explain the perceived justice in this condition.To attain this end,this paper,based on justice theory and conflict behavioral theory,attempted to more elaborately investigate the influential mechanism between organizational justice and cooperative behavior in construction dispute negotiations.Through the comprehensive discussion of distributive,procedural and interactional justice in construction dispute negotiation,this paper combs the different path of distinguished dimensions of justice towards cooperative behaviors.Furthermore,because the core of construction disputes is closely relevant to the compliance with contract,contract governance is chosen as the moderator,and in this paper,the significance of the three dimensions of justice on cooperation is examined under different kinds of contract completeness dimensions.According to the objectives of this paper,164 prime negotiators in construction dispute negotiations are surveyed.The data collected from them were employed for a stepwise regression analysis first.The results indicated that apart from distributive justice,procedural justice and interactional justice are also significantly related with cooperative behaviors.Moreover,through multiple moderated regression analysis,the moderating effect of contract completeness is examined.The results indicated that term specificity moderates the relationship between procedural and interactional justice and cooperative behaviors;contractual obligatoriness moderates the relationship between distributive justice and cooperative behaviors.The conclusions can shed light on construction dispute practitioners from two aspects.Firstly,negotiators should not only care for distribution of the negotiation issues,but also procedural and interactional justice;secondly,negotiators should pay attention to the difference of central justice when contract completeness differs.