This activity is important because as a manager, it is important that your employees see you as trustworthy, as trust predicts job performance and organizational commitment. Your actions are signals to employees about justice, or perceived fairness, of your decision making. There are three types of justice$$distributive$,$ procedural, and informational.

The goal of this activity is to demonstrate your knowledge of justice by matching the types of justice to details of a promotion decision process. For this exercise, imagine you are a local manager of a retail sales organization. Business has been growing in your state lately and the top management team has decided to open several additional stores. Therefore, they need a new regional manager and you are one of five being considered for the job. Here you will read descriptions of the decision$-$making process.