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Procedural justice

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, procedural justice means: Perceived fairness in the procedures used to make decisions affecting people.

In Turkish: süreç adaleti

How it is used

Use when discussing consistency, opportunities to be heard and how decisions are reached, rather than only their outcomes.

Example sentences

  1. Employees questioned procedural justice because some applicants could appeal and others could not.

    Unequal access to a review process raises a concern independent of who was selected.

  2. Explaining the promotion criteria strengthened perceptions of procedural justice.

    Making the decision process understandable can influence perceptions of fairness.

Common collocations

  • perceptions of procedural justice
  • promote procedural justice
  • transparencyThe practice of sharing information openly and honestly, so that employees, shareholders or the public can see how decisions are made and how the organisation is doing.
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.

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