Procedural justice explanations and employee reactions to economic hardship: A field experiment.

Abstract

In a randomized field experiment involving 173 salaried employees, treatment subjects received an explanation for an ongoing pay freeze. This explained the fairness of the decision process leading to the freeze and the fairness of the implementation of the freeze. The explanation mitigated the effect of the resultant economic hardship on employee attitudes, turnover intentions, and perceptions of procedural justice