Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2013

Fairness & Justice

During a church sermon that I had heard late last summer/early last fall, a pastor addressed the issues of fairness and justice. I had originally started typing this blog post in September 2012 but, due to time & energy constraints, I never got past the first line! In terms of employment, organizational development, teamwork, culture, and other areas of practice and thought, I have thought about fairness and justice for a number of years now. From a distance, both values look to be clear and self-explanatory. Yet, when experiencing fairness or unfairness or justice or injustice, the terms are not so clear-cut. I will now focus in more on fairness and justice in the realm of organizational development--more specifically, in regards to leadership and management. On one hand, fairness and justice relate to equal treatment, equal opportunity, shared resources, and so on. On the other hand, fairness and justice relate to providing the best treatment, best opportunities, best resou