Power-distance, gender and organizational justice

A sample of Hong Kong employees was used to test the hypotheses that power- distance orientation and gender moderate the relationships between justice perceptions and the evaluation of authorities (trust in supervisor) and the organization (contract fulfillment). Results indicated that 1) the relatio nship between procedural justice and contract fulfillment was higher for ma les, 2) the relationship between procedural justice nod trust in supervisor was higher for those with low power-distance orientations, and 3) the rela tionship between distributive justice and contract fulfillment was higher f or those with low power-distance orientations. The discussion addresses the implication of including power-distance and gender variables in research o n procedural and distributive justice. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All r ights reserved.