Title

Protective effects of interactional justice on job insecurity of Chinese workers : evidence from a large-scale state-owned telecom company

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Source Publication

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Web Society, 2010

Publication Date

8-2010

First Page

443

Last Page

448

Publisher

IEEE Press

Keywords

job insecurity, procedural justice, interactional justice, job satisfaction, organizational commitment

Abstract

The study attempted to explore protective effects of procedural justice on job insecurity and job attitudes of Chinese workers in the face of an impending organizational change. In a large-scale state-owned telecom company and its four subsidiary companies in China where a fundamental organizational change was about to take place, 592 employees were randomly sampled and surveyed. The results of hierarchical regression analysis show that procedural justice could bolster employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment partially through reducing their job insecurity. Further analysis of this partial mediating effect, in terms of two components of procedural justice, revealed a protective effect of interactional justice instead of formal procedure on job insecurity of Chinese employees in the face of the forthcoming organizational change. Implications for measures protecting employees’ psychological well-being in the decision-making process of human resource management leading up to organizational change are discussed later.

Language

English

DOI

10.1109/SWS.2010.5607409

Other identifiers

2-s2.0-78650301180

Scopus EID

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78650301180&doi=10.1109%2fSWS.2010.5607409&partnerID=40&md5=b1001515d7df0e30b167e8bbe837850b

Publisher Statement

Copyright © IEEE 2010. Access to external full text or publisher's version may require subscription.

Additional Information

ISBN of the source publication: 9781424463596

Full-text Version

Publisher’s Version

Recommended Citation

Xie, Y. Z., Wang, X. L., Siu, O. L., & Shi, K. (2010). Protective effects of interactional justice on job insecurity of Chinese workers: Evidence from a large-scale state-owned telecom company. In T. Zhu, Q. Gao, & B. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Web Society, 2010 (pp. 443-448). Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE Press. doi: 10.1109/SWS.2010.5607409

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