A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICE CONTEXT

Using a multilevel framework, we hypothesized that both employee perce ptions of procedural justice and a work unit level measure of procedur al justice context would be associated with employee reports of job sa tisfaction and organizational commitment. Three hundred and twenty-thr ee employees from 53 branches of a financial services organization wer e used to test this hypothesis. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses revealed that procedural justice context explained variance in employe e job satisfaction beyond that accounted for by individual perceptions of procedural justice. With regard to organizational commitment, this hypothesis was not supported. The results are discussed in connection with contextual aspects of procedural justice. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.