Theories of Procedural Justice and criteria for Fairness Judgements

Blader and Tyler (2003), following the 'Organisational Justice' school of thought, attempted to further its concern with the nature of procedural justice by proposing their 'Four Component Model of Procedural Justice'. Darcy (2005) tested three of the components by recent empirical research into the factors that impact directly on an employee's perception of fairness in relation to the termination of their employment. She found that factors derived from Blader and Tyler's model to be significant predictors of fairness judgments and in so doing confirms the relevance of the three components of Blader and Tyler's model. This paper reports briefly on Darcy's work but then turns its attention to the fourth component, formal quality of treatment. Its attempt to conceptualise it further from the perspective of recent philosophising in the traditional natural law approach