Procedural Justice (Niehoff & Moorman short)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.853 sample items
About this scale
A 5-item measure of formal procedural justice from Niehoff & Moorman (1993). Used widely as a parsimonious alternative to Colquitt's procedural-justice subscale.
Sample item(s)
“Job decisions are made by my supervisor in an unbiased manner.”
“All job decisions are applied consistently across all affected employees.”
“Employees are allowed to challenge or appeal job decisions made by the supervisor.”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Frequently used in OCB-justice path models.
Source & citation
Niehoff, B. P., & Moorman, R. H. (1993): Justice as a mediator of the relationship between methods of monitoring and organizational citizenship behavior. Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 527–556.
Niehoff & Moorman (1993): Procedural & interactional justice. AMJ, 36(3), 527–556.
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