Understanding students' experiences of fairness in team formation and team dynamics processes

Research project

Organisational justice deals with the fairness of treatment and decisions employees experience in the workplace. In the workplace, decisions are made about employees all the time – pay, opportunities for promotion, resources, desk availability. The hypothesis is that if employees experience decisions made about them, company procedures, and how they are treated, as fair, then this fosters employee cooperation or organisational support.

Our research translates the idea of organisational justice, and procedural justice in particular, from organisations to teams; from employees to students; from employee cooperation to flourishing student teams. Our focus is student teams in the first year of their engineering studies.