Ensuring Fair treatment

 Anyone who has suffered unfair treatment at work knows it is demoralizing. 

Fair treatment involves ensuring that your employee's rights are being respected and that each employee is given individualized treatment (HR search & Rescue, 2021).

Unfair treatment reduces morale, poisons trust, and negatively impacts employee relations and performance.  

Employees of abusive supervisors are more likely to quit, and to report lower job and life satisfaction and higher stress. The effects on employees of such abusiveness are particularly pronounced where the abusive supervisors seem to have support from higher-ups. Even when someone just witnesses abusive supervision for example- seeing a coworker abused, it triggers adverse reactions including further unethical behavior (Long et al., 2011). 

At work, fair treatment reflects concrete actions such as "employees are treated with respect," and "employees are treated fairly".  

There are many reasons why managers should be fair. the golden rule is obvious reason. what may not to be obvious is that unfairness can backfire on the company. For example, victims of unfairness exhibit more workplace deviance, such as theft and sabotage. Victims of unfairness also suffer a range of ill effects including poor health, strain and psychological conditions. Unfairness leads to increased tensions between the employee and his or her family or partner (Hannah et al., 2013). 

Abusive supervisors undermine their subordinates' effectiveness and may prompt them to act destructively. in terms of employee relations, employees' perceptions of fairness relates positively to enhanced employee commitment; enhanced satisfaction with the company, job and leader; and enhanced organizational citizenship behaviors.

The employer and manager are responsible for ensuring that the employee is treated fairly and with respect. 

Techniques for minimizing unfairness include

- hire competent and well-balanced employees and supervisors

- ensure equitable pay

- institute fair performance appraisal systems

- have policies requiring fair treatment of all employees

- communications systems such as periodic attitude surveys

- disciplinary appeals programs (Weaver & Trevino, 2001)

References

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Long, C. P. Bendersky, C. and Morrill, C. (2011). Fairness monitoring: Linking managerial controls and fairness judgments in organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 54(5), pp.1045-1068. [Online] Available at: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2011.0008 [Accessed on 23^rd August, 2022].

Weaver, G. R. and Trevino, L. K. (2001). The role of human resources in ethics/compliance management: A fairness perspective. Human Resource Management Review, 11(1-2), pp.113-134. [Online] Available at: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/56775028/Articol_Hebler_Romina-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1661274306&Signature=Q7J9YlU3RSylmi8D0mWQCT8JuS04Bwrk4fwimsn6pCCwuGz-46z4JIX89yXR7qrpkKwxFIf1M8TonBtluHtiRzdUxxdPcEqw~gytJJIWZGoCCXVsqzX9Q8q2ciWpV6SvpTS8dSi4aLh-BEYH6Ys4TATXn0Jt8anQSsPBCWShpR8~bDJwPt07MkcNzMxbkZarScNV4MDRs0bm-QSj-Ly0cQ4DxecIilFdPPjlexDjExF4Lkl2fAtZDlU0LFvsEMYTmXHCV2fnkUPuI1FMlL38WAAxsjuo0Fn8sfBN5GuQHwyZatqNbXTw9fNamNQ~~NoMMp4woTChWhvNpjLjlh-xWw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA [Accessed on 23^rd August, 2022].