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Organizational Justice and Public Performance in Greece

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Effectiveness; Organizational fairness; Productivity; Public administration; Public management; Work outcomes; Workplace fairness

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The term organizational justice refers to several distinct forms of perceived justice (i.e., distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) each of which offers a different answer to the question “What is fair?”.

Introduction

Nowadays, within the context of the global financial turmoil, managers of both the public and the private sector have to address the critical challenge of fostering employees’ well-being in order to enhance motivation and job performance.

As a result of the unfavorable economic conditions, global real wage growth has fallen from 1.6% in 2012 to 0.9% in 2015. Across EU countries there are, however, remarkable differences in the real wage growth. According to the European Commission Data (Eurostat 2015), compensation per employee grew in the euro area at 1.4% in 2014, a record low, while the compensation...

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Mylona, E., Mihail, D. (2019). Organizational Justice and Public Performance in Greece. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3692-1

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