Organizational Justice Model across Seven Countries
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https://doi.org/10.24837/pru.v9i2.373Keywords:
mãsurare echivalenței, justiție organizaționalã, CFAAbstract
In general research that has examined organizational justice (OJ) across countries has failed to prove first
the measurement equivalence of their measures, thus making their results questionable. The present study focuses
on the measurement equivalence of the three factor OJ model in seven countries (four languages) with the aim
of seeing if the three factor model of OJ holds across these countries. The basic question that we want to answer
is „Do respondents from different countries interpret the OJ measure in a conceptually similar manner?”. In subsidiary
we looked at the effect of language and geographical location.
Our findings indicate that OJ is equivalent across all seven countries (configural, metric, scalar and uniqueness
equivalence). Different sub-models are discussed (grouped by language and geographical location). Results
indicated that neighbor countries that share the same language have a better fit of the three factors OJ model.
Key words: measurement equivalence, organizational justice, countries, CFA.
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