Citation

Butler AM, Chung-Yan GA. Eur. J. Work Org. Psychol. 2011; 20(6): 729-754.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/1359432X.2010.507351

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Organizational justice theory was used to understand the conditions that influence how women respond when sexually harassed. Specifically, this study examined whether sexual harassment frequency interacts with perceptions of four types of organizational justice (procedural, distributive, interpersonal, and informational) to predict two types of victim responses (confrontation and reporting). With data collected from 257 female employees, it was found that the interaction between sexual harassment frequency and perceptions of distributive justice and the interaction between sexual harassment frequency and perceptions of procedural justice predicted reporting, whereas the interaction between sexual frequency and perceptions of distributive justice predicted confrontation. The interaction between sexual harassment frequency and perceptions of informational justice predicted both confrontation and reporting. Implications for organizations are discussed.