Employer of Choice: Fairness

 From the receptionist at the front door to top executives, people want to be treated fairly. Trap: Understanding fairness can be challenging. An organizational policy can be viewed as fair by some and unfair by others.

Fairness is important. When employees are treated unfairly, they:

• are more negatively affected by their workload
• have lower productivity
• are more likely to quit
• have higher levels of conflict and
• are more likely to resort to collective bargaining to solve their problems.

Symptoms like these are costly to both the employees and the organization. Most often, we create our judgment of “fairness” by comparing … Continue Reading…