lecture 10.1 fairness in the workplace

Question 1

fairness

Answer 1

the quality of treating people equally or in a way that is right or reasonable

Question 2

justice

Answer 2

fairness in the way people are dealt with

Question 3

justice in the history of philosophy

justice as a virtue

Answer 3

justice is a habit whereby a man renders to each one his due by a constant and perpetual will

Three features
1) justice as an individual claim
2) Obligations, enforceable?
3) fairness, no arbitrariness

Question 4

justice as a virtue of institutions (rawls)

Answer 4

I consider justice only as a virtue of social institutions, or what I shall call practices

The conception of justice which I want to develop may be stated in the form of two principles as follows: first, each person particpating in a practice, or affected by it, has an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with a like liberty for all; and second, inequalities are arbitrary, unless it is reasonable to expect that they will work out for everyones advantage, and provided the positions and offices to which they attach, or from which they may be gained, areopen to all.

Question 5

organizational justice

Answer 5

justice as a virtue of social institutions seems more fitting when it comes to organizationas as companiees

Question 6

Two sense of organizational justice

Answer 6

1) top down: just organization designed by employers

2) Bottom up: employees perception of fairness

Question 7

Three kinds of organizatinoal justice

Answer 7

Distributive justice: fairness of reward, focus more on outcome

Procedural justice: fairness of the rules and procedures by which the rewards are distributed, focus on the process

Interactional justice: people are interested not only in outcomes and procedures, but also about the quality of the interpersonal relations