Leadership training in organizational justice to increase citizenship behavior within a labor union: A replication

In a replication of a quasi-experiment by Skarlicki and Latham (1996), we investigated the effect of training union leaders (N = 25) in the administration of organizational justice principles on union members' (N = 177) perceptions of their leaders' fairness and the members' subsequent citizenship behavior toward their union. Despite the fact that the union members were also shareholders of the company, the results were replicated. Union leader training increased members' perceptions of their leaders' fairness as well as union members' citizenship behavior directed both toward the union as an organization (OCBO) and fellow union members (OCBI). Organizational justice was found to partially mediate the effect of the training on OCBO, but not OCBI.