Leadership and justice: Increasing non participating users' assessment of an IT through passive participation

Authors:
David Gefen;Arik Ragowsky;Catherine Ridings
Affiliations:
LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, PA 19104, USA;School of Business Administration, Wayne State University, MI 48202, USA;College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University, PA 18015, USA
Venue:
Information and Management
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Allowing users to actively participate in the development and implementation of a new IS is supposed to increase their satisfaction with it. This type of participation, representing aspects relating to distributive and procedural justice, is increasingly impractical in current organizational settings, because many IS are used by thousands of employees and having them involved is impossible. Nonetheless, there are still benefits to be gained in other ways. Extrapolating from interactional justice, we proposed a passive participation method of engaging users. Its effect was tested in a large company in the USA and proved effective. Interactional justice, the perception of fairness in the way that people were treated at an interpersonal level, was found to increase user assessment of the value of their IS. Implications and expansions to interactional justice theory and how this antecedent affects IS implementation are discussed.