Seminar Proposal by Prof. Dirk Steiner
For the University of Valencia
During the period: June 1 to June 7 2010
Seminar 1:
Principles and Current Research on Organizational Justice
First, I propose to review the major principles of organizational justice providing the basic
social psychology bases and their applications in work and organizational psychology. Thus,
distributive justice and its basis in equity theory will be examined, followed by presentations
of procedural and interactional justice. These different concepts will be examined with
particular regard to how research over the past decade has influenced our understanding of
them. After this overview, examples of research, again from a basic social psychology point
of view (for example, the role of uncertainty) and from more applied perspectives in work and
organizational psychology (for example, applications for reducing stress, limits to the
effectiveness of justice interventions), will be presented.
Seminar 2:
Current Perspectives on Fairness in Personnel Selection
This seminar will focus on up-to-date knowledge of research in the field of personnel
selection, with special attention to how validity concerns, organizational justice perspectives,
and fighting discrimination are interrelated. Thus, we will review validity evidence, the
literature on applicant reactions, and justice perspectives on discrimination. The first seminar
on organizational justice therefore provides some of the background which will be developed
in the second seminar.
Some of the research to be highlighted during the two seminars is listed here:
Cohen-Charash, Y., & Spector, P. E. (2001). The role of justice in organizations: A meta-analysis.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86, 278-321.
Colquitt, J. A. (2001). On the dimensionality of organizational justice: A construct validation of a measure.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 386-400.
Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O. L. H., & Ng, K. Y. (2001). Justice at the millenium:
A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Journal of Applied Psychology,
86, 425-445.
Cropanzano, R., & Rupp, D. E. (2002). Some reflections on the morality of organizational justice. In S. W.
Gilliland, D. D. Steiner, & D. P. Skarlicki (Eds.), Emerging Perspectives on Managing Organizational
Justice (pp. 225-278). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishers.
Lievens, F., De Corte, W., & Schollaert, E. (2008). A closer look at the frame-of-reference effect in personality
scale scores and validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 268-279.
Mayer, D., Greenbaum, R., Kuenzi, M., & Shteynberg, G. (2009). When do fair procedures not matter? A test of
the identity violation effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(1), 142-161.
Morgeson, F. P., Campion, M. A., Dipboye, R. L., Hollenbeck, J. R., Murphy, K., & Schmitt, N. (2007).
Reconsidering the use of personality tests in personnel selection contexts. Personnel Psychology, 60,
683-729.
Shaw, J. C., Wild, E., & Colquitt, J. A. (2003). To justify or excuse?: A meta-analytic review of the effects of
explanations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 444-458.
Steiner, D. D. (2001). Cultural influences on perceptions of distributive and procedural justice. In S. W.
Gilliland, D. D. Steiner, & D. Skarlicki (Eds.), Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives on Organizational
Justice (pp. 111-137). Greenwich, CT : Information Age Publishing.
Steiner, D. D. (2003). Equité et justice au travail. Dans J. Allouche (Ed.), Encyclopédie des Ressources
Humaines (pp. 466-475). Paris : Vuibert.
Truxillo, D. M., Steiner, D. D., & Gilliland, S. W. (2004). The importance of organizational justice in personnel
selection: Defining when selection fairness really matters. International Journal of Selection and
Assessment, 12, 39-53.
Van den Bos, K. (2001). Uncertainty management: The influence of uncertainty salience on reactions to
perceived procedural fairness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 931-941.
van den Bos, K. (2005). What is responsible for the fair process effect ? In J. Greenberg & J. A. Colquitt (Eds.),
Handbook of Organizational Justice (p. 273-300). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.