著者

中津 陽介

出版者

日本労務学会

雑誌

日本労務学会誌 (ISSN:18813828)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, no.2, pp.41-55, 2021-12-01 (Released:2022-03-07)

参考文献数

56

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The purpose of this paper is to review conceptual research on the concept of “overall fairness” , which has attracted much attention in recent years in the field of organizational justice research. The concept of overall fairness is defined as “the global evaluations of the fairness of an entity based on personal experiences as well as on the experiences of others” . Based on the conceptual debate on overall fairness that developed in the 1990s and 2000s, this paper will summarize the background of researchersʼ interest in the concept and how they conceptualized the concept of inclusive justice.In the first half of this paper, I try to relate the growing interest of researchers in the concept of overall fairness to the changes in researchersʼ core issues that have occurred in organizational justice research since the late 1980s. Then I summarize the limitations of organizational justice as existing concept and the usefulness of the concept of overall fairness for examining new issues. In the latter half of this paper, I will organize how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized overall fairness in order to examine new issues in organizational justice research. In particular, this paper will explain three representative ideas that constitute the definition of overall fairness concept, called “total justice model”, “justice heuristics theory”, and “entity justice”, as well as two approaches to operationalizing overall fairness. Finally, I will summarize the contents of this paper and present the significance of focusing on overall fairness and the prospects for future research.