LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE TO INCREASE CITIZENSHIPBEHAVIOR WITHIN A LABOR UNION - A REPLICATION

In a replication of a quasi-experiment by Skarlicki and Latham (1996), we investigated the effect of training union leaders (N = 25) in the administration of organizational justice principles on union members' (N = 177) perceptions of their leaders' fairness and the members' subs equent citizenship behavior toward their union. Despite the fact that the union members were also shareholders of the company, the results w ere replicated. Union leader training increased members' perceptions o f their leaders' fairness as well as union members' citizenship behavi or directed both toward the union as an organization (OCBO) and fellow union members (OCBI). Organizational justice was found to partially m ediate the effect of the training on OCBO, but not OCBI.