How do accountants perceive fairness in the workplace? An Australian perspective

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This study is now complete and the full report will be published in the near future.  If you would like to receive a soft-copy of the published thesis, please email me at:

charmayne@enya-lea.com

Findings from the study

Although distributive, procedural, and interactional justice form the backbone of fairness in the workplace, issues relating to power and bias emerged as critical factors in the way Australian accountants come to terms with organisational justice issues. Despite the common interpretation of organisational justice as being skewed towards unfairness, a somewhat unexpected but pleasing viewpoint expressed by most participants in this study who had chosen a career in public practice was that they felt the profession, as a whole, was 'pretty fair'.

The full report can be downloaded from this link.

Highfield, C. (2013). How do accountants perceive fairness in the workplace? An Australian perspective.
Highfield, C. and Bisman, J.E. (2012). The road less travelled: An overview and example of constructivist research in accounting. Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal, 6(5), 3-22.