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Organizational Justice and Health

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Handbook of Socioeconomic Determinants of Occupational Health

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Group-level and organizational decision-making and interaction has long roots in social and organizational psychology. One of the leading theoretical constructs on the issue during the last three decades has been procedural or organizational justice, defining the decision-making rules that people perceive being fair and acceptable in a group or an organization. Only relatively recently organizational injustice has been studied as an occupational health risk, but the idea has inspired already a large body of research. In this chapter, some of the historical roots and more current research on the associations between injustice, health outcomes, and the potential mechanisms and limitations will be reviewed. Also some ideas will be provided for future studies on organizational justice as a part of larger system of psychosocial work environment.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Marko Elovainio

  2. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

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  3. School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

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Elovainio, M., Virtanen, M. (2020). Organizational Justice and Health. In: Theorell, T. (eds) Handbook of Socioeconomic Determinants of Occupational Health. Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05031-3_15-1

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