COMMENTARY

Organisational justice

Injustice at work and health: causation or correlation?

I Kawachi

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Prof. I Kawachi
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ikawachi@hsph.harvard.edu

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Commentary on the paper by Ferrie et al (Occup Environ Med, July 2006)^*

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Keywords: organisational justice

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Organisational justice has emerged in recent years as a determinant of workers’ health, joining the growing list of other psychosocial aspects of the work environment, including job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and job insecurity. In a series of studies carried out mainly among Finnish workers, perceptions of organisational justice have been linked to poor self-rated health, minor psychiatric disorders, and sickness absences.^1,2 In the July issue of this journal, Ferrie and colleagues provide an independent test of low organisational justice as a predictor of psychiatric morbidity within a well established cohort, the British Whitehall II study.³ What do these studies add to the literature on the psychosocial work environment, and do we have sufficient evidence to implicate organisational justice as a causal influence on workers’ health?

Initial studies in this area were cross-sectional and involved self-reported outcomes, so that reverse causation and common method bias could not be ruled . . . [Full text of this article]

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Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: the Whitehall II study

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