The Fairness Game —Fiorenza

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Perceived fairness: Efforts to create workplace fairness cannot end with legal compliance. While such an approach may reduce an organization’s legal risk and also offer some useful management tools, it focuses more on the expensive and frustrating process of legal defense than on the proactive process of risk avoidance and positive management. And so, the second aspect of managing fairness in the workplace demands an organizational commitment to moving past compliance standards and closer to the standards of perceived fairness in all aspects of organizational activity.