Human Resource Practices, Employee Fairness Perceptions and Well-Being

Statistics show that the percentage of employees suffering from stress remains high over the years in Canada (Crompton, 2011). According to a recent Gallup Survey , employees cite unfair treatment as a major cause of job strain in the form of job burnout. Organizational justice (or fairness), defined as the employee’s experience of an equitable and just workplace (Colquitt, Conlon, Wesson, Porter, & Ng, 2001), is therefore an important consideration for employers who want to implement a healthy working environment. As a testimony to the rapid expansion of research in this area, Robbins, Ford, and Tetrick (2012) published a meta-analysis reporting negative associations between perceptions of unfairness and health.

This project will aim to explore the impact of differentiation of human resource management practices and integrate the role of fairness in this process. It includes a multi-country and multi-method study to explore and investigate these questions.