title: Organizational injustice: third parties' reactions to mistreatment of employee.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Research on organizational injustice has mainly focused on the victim's perspective. This study attempts to contribute to our understanding of third parties' perspective by empirically testing a model that describes third party reactions to mistreatment of employees.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from a sample (N = 334) of Spanish employees from various organizations, nested into 66 work-groups, via a survey regarding their perceptions of organizational mistreatment. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The proposed model had a limited fit to the data and it was re-specified. Organizational mistreatment, employee performance, and employee organizational commitment explained internal attributions blaming the organization. Moreover, coworkers' organizational identification showed a positive impact on external attributions of responsibility. Lastly, supportive organizational climate and internal attributions accounted for a large percentage of variance in coworkers' perceptions of organizational unfairness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The final model explains the perceptions of injustice on the basis of internal attributions of responsibility in the face of organizational mistreatment of employees.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain. gtopa@psi.uned.es
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Topa
authors.forename: Juan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Moriano
authors.forename: José F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Morales
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004648:Employee Grievances; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace