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Seeing The "Forest" Or The "Trees" Of Organizational Justice: Effects Of Temporal Perspective On Employee Concerns About Unfair Treatment At Work, Irina Cojuharenco, David Patient, Michael R. Bashshur

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

What events do employees recall or anticipate when they think of past or future unfair treatment at work? We propose that an employee’s temporal perspective can change the salience of different types of injustice through its effect on cognitions about employment. Study 1 used a survey in which employee temporal focus was measured as an individual difference. Whereas greater levels of future focus related positively to concerns about distributive injustice, greater levels of present focus related positively to concerns about interactional injustice. In Study 2, an experimental design focused employee attention on timeframes that differed in temporal orientation and temporal …