GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY, DELHI

Ph.D. – SCHOOL DIRECTED COURSE

ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE

Course Contents

Unit I: Organizational Justice- Theoretical Advances and Conceptual direction

Organizational Justice: A historical overview, Concept of Organizational Justice; Stress and

Justice in Organization; Role of control in Organizational Justice; How to measure
Organizational Justice; Justice Judgment process; Justice Effects, Generalizability issues in
organizational Justice.

Unit II: Practical application of Organizational Justice

Cross cultural application of Organizational Justice; Relationship between Justice,

Discrimination and Prejudice; Organization Justice in strategic decision making; Justice
Concerns in the era of changing psychological contracts.

Unit III: Organizational Citizenship Behavior- Introduction

Evolution of OCB, OCB in context of organizational theory, Dimensions of OCB, Mechanism to

promote OCB, Models of OCB, antecedents of OCB, Counterproductive Work Behavior, Impact
of Leadership and Work Environment on OCB, OCB and performance appraisals, Future of
OCB.

Unit IV: Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Relationship between Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Relation

of work motivation with Organizational Justice; Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion and
Organizational Attachment; Psychological imperative in field of Organizational Justice.

Text Books
1. Greenberg, Jerald, & Colquitt, Jason A., Handbook of Organizational Justice, Psychology
Press.
2. Folger G, Robert, & Cropanzano, Russell, Organizational Justice and Human Resource
Management, Sage Publications.
3. Beugré D. Constant, A Cultural Perspective of Organizational Justice, IAP
 4. Organ W. Dennis; Podsakoff, Philip M. & MacKenzie, Scott B., Organizational
Citizenship Behavior: Its Nature, Antecedents, and Consequences, Sage Publications
5. Borman, Walter C., & Motowidlo ,Stephan J., Organizational Citizenship Behavior and
Contextual Performance: A Special Issue of Human Performance, Psychology Press.

References
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