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Capturing the Participants’ Voice: Using Causal Mapping Supported by Group Decision Software to Enhance Procedural Justice

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This paper examines the way in which causal mapping, aided by group decision software, adheres to the tenets of procedural justice. Causal mapping workshops utilise a dual facilitation process that enables the participants’ “voice” to be heard. We demonstrate how a causal mapping process of investigation surfaces authentic qualitative data by aligning the process of investigation with the principles of procedural justice as found in organisational justice literature. This is supported by a statistical analysis of the dimension of procedural justice using the responses of workshop participants.

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  1. Department of Strategic Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, Hugh Aston Building, Leicester, LE2 7BQ, UK

    Parmjit Kaur

  2. School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK

    Ashley L. Carreras

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  2. Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Gregory Kersten

  3. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Rudolf Vetschera

  4. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Haiyan Xu

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Kaur, P., Carreras, A.L. (2018). Capturing the Participants’ Voice: Using Causal Mapping Supported by Group Decision Software to Enhance Procedural Justice. In: Chen, Y., Kersten, G., Vetschera, R., Xu, H. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation in an Uncertain World. GDN 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92874-6_9

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