Procedural justice's relationship with turnover: explaining past inconsistent findings

This study attempts to clarify past findings by examining the effects of multiple dimensions of procedural justice on the voluntary turnover behavior of nurses in a work-scheduling context and found the advance notice and consistency dimensions were significantly and negatively correlated with turnover behavior.

Abstract

Abstract Despite arguments for a significant negative relationship, there have been ambiguous findings on the empirical relationship between procedural justice and turnover behavior. This study attempts to clarify these past findings by examining the effects of multiple dimensions of procedural justice on the voluntary turnover behavior of nurses in a work‐scheduling context ( N = 190). The advance notice and consistency dimensions were significantly and negatively correlated with turnover behavior. Two dimensions of procedural justice had divergent effects on actual turnover behaviors in a logistic regression model. Advance notice was negatively related to turnover, while representativeness of views was positively related to turnover. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.