The Reason People Leave their Boss and Not their Job: Interactional Justice

An Inclusive organisation is a fair organisation and a useful way to think about fairness is Interactional Justice.

Find out how this explains why  people leave their Boss and not their job.

Here are some key messages from this episode

  • The Importance Of Interactional Justice
  • Two Types of Interactional Justice
  • How Manners are related to Justice and much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

Interactional Justice  is about people not just procedures

“When we talk about interactional justice, it’s useful not to think in terms of procedures, it’s useful to think in terms of people.Are people treated fairly by other people? More specifically, how are people behaving?”

Interactional Justice is about how people are treated

“Think of interactional justice as a way of describing the interactions between those who have power and those who do not. Interactional justice is determined by the behavior of supervisors, managers, leaders”

Interactional justice explains why people leave their jobs

“Have you ever heard the phrase, people don’t leave an organisation, they leave their Boss?  That can be explained by a lack of interactional justice”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

The Role of Justice in Organizations: A Meta-Analysis

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