title: Claiming in the name of fairness: organizational justice and the decision to file for workplace injury compensation.
abstract: This article explored the relationship among injured workers' perceptions of workplace justice (i.e., distributive, interactional, and procedural), perceptions of employers' disability-related policies, and the decision to file a workers' compensation claim. Using a 2-wave sample of 1,077 workers with repetitive motion injuries, the authors tested a structural equation model. Results revealed that Time 1 interactional justice was negatively related to filing a claim, whereas Time 1 distributive justice was positively related to perceptions of employer disability-related practices measured a year after the date of injury report. At Time 2, the claim decision was unrelated to perceptions of justice, yet perceptions of disability-related practices were significantly related to all 3 types of justice.
authors.affiliation: School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA. robert15@msu.edu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Markel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017281:Cost of Illness; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010465:Perception; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D012935:Social Justice / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012944:Social Support; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*