Abstract
Informational justice, a component of organizational justice, measures how employees perceive the quality of information they receive about the organizational decisions that affect them. Informational justice has been shown to impact personnel outcomes, including performance and retention. This chapter examines perceptions of informational justice and their effect on key outcomes in survey data from 6503 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel. We found that informational justice was related to perceptions of organizational justice, organizational and unit leadership, career management, trust in the CAF, and psychological withdrawal. Mediational analyses indicated that perceptions of informational justice were related to commitment and leave intentions, even after controlling for other variables, such as perceptions of overall justice and satisfaction with leadership. Implications for information sharing within military organizations are discussed.
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Given the discrepancies between the sample and the target population, the data were weighted to correct for the demographic differences between the sample of respondents and the target population. Consequently, means and percentages for the full sample (meant to represent the total population of Regular Force Canadian Forces personnel) are estimates of this population, and because they are weighted, they are not direct representations of the mean scores and percentages reported by the survey respondents. Analyses based on subgroups of respondents (e.g., rank comparisons) and inferential analyses (e.g., correlations) are not weighted to reflect the total target population. In these cases, the sample data are not estimates of the population, but rather represent the actual means and percentages reported by the survey respondents.
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Goldenberg, I., Saindon, M., Al-Tawil, J. (2017). Oh, Didn’t Anyone Tell You? The Importance of Intra-Organizational Information Sharing. In: Goldenberg, I., Soeters, J., Dean, W. (eds) Information Sharing in Military Operations. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42819-2_3
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