Question

Why is workplace fairness more than an issue of legal compliance?

Answer 1

A larger pattern of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in work place. Every organization must confront the challenge of motivating its work force. fairness is one key for this. Employees are more motivated when they feel that organizational resources are allocated fairly, that organizational decisions are made in fairways, and that their organization treats them fairly. Moreover, employees who experience fairness at work are more likely to internalize the organization’s goals and values, and to develop close bonds with other organizational members. In this way, a ‘management-by-fairness’ approach motivates employees to work collaboratively for the long-term good of the organization and its members. Such a long-term collaborative focus tends to produce ethical behaviour.

Ethics management efforts are likely to raise questions of fairness, and trigger a fairness heuristic among employees that can generate important outcomes for the ethics program specifically and the organization generally. Ethical issues that are salient to employees, such as fairness in hiring, promotion, performance appraisal, pay, restructuring, etc.