EMPLOYEES PERCEPTIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE OF PAY RAISE DECISIONS - A POLICY CAPTURING APPROACH

An examination was made of the factors that contribute to employee per ceptions of the distributive justice of compensation outcomes and how employees differ in their perceptions. A sample of 414 employees of a large public university was used to assess what distributive rules are associated with employees' perceptions of the fairness of pay raise d ecisions. The results found that employees evaluated the fairness of p ay raise decisions differently. A cluster analysis identified three gr oups of employees who differed in their perceptions, and one-way analy sis of variance highlighted a number of demographic and attitudinal fa ctors by which these groups were distinguished.