creator Cruz, Jaime L. advisor Stein, Jordan Although many studies in the justice literature have examined organizational justice and organizational outcomes, less research has been conducted on organizational justice and employee health. Specifically, this study examined the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational justice dimensions – distributive, interactional and procedural justice in relation to proximal health outcomes (i.e., general well-being, insomnia, emotional exhaustion, alcohol consumption and emotional eating). It was hypothesized that lower levels of perceived justice at work would be associated with worse health related outcomes. With the study’s sample size of 339, results partially supported the hypotheses. Explicitly, results indicated that lower perceptions of distributive and interactional justice were related to increased emotional exhaustion and poorer overall health assessments (general well-being) in employees. Additionally, procedural justice perceptions were found to interact with individuals’ use of heuristic devices in that those who were more inclined to use heuristic devices when making justice judgments displayed a significant relationship between procedural justice perceptions and certain health outcomes (i.e., emotional eating) while individuals less inclined to utilize heuristics did not display a significant relationship between the aforementioned justice and health measures. In sum, this study, provides a much needed starting point for organizational scholars to begin to address and understand the relationship between justice perceptions and health related outcomes at work. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2013-11-04T21:21:20Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Formatted Final - 5.7.13.pdf: 857839 bytes, checksum: 80a48ba578f914c91f3b78fe23a37ffd (MD5) Signed cover page.pdf: 14161 bytes, checksum: 8fb80468ae728e16885d60214c13f4af (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-04T21:21:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Formatted Final - 5.7.13.pdf: 857839 bytes, checksum: 80a48ba578f914c91f3b78fe23a37ffd (MD5) Signed cover page.pdf: 14161 bytes, checksum: 8fb80468ae728e16885d60214c13f4af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05 PH.D in Psychology, May 2013 2013 2013-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3112 en Dissertation born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department