{
  "title": "Change management: can an unfavourable decision be fair?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/conduite-du-changement-une-decision-defavorable-peut-elle-etre-juste-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-12-19",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Transformation often redistributes constraints as well as resources. Research suggests distinguishing the outcome received, the procedure followed and the way people are treated.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Change Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Jason Colquitt (2001, Journal of Applied Psychology) provides evidence supporting a measure that distinguishes four dimensions of organisational justice: distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Outcomes and procedures tell different stories",
      "point": "Robert Folger and Mary Konovsky (1989, Academy of Management Journal) studied reactions to pay raise decisions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a well-managed procedure is enough to secure acceptance of a loss."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "The pay raise study is not an experiment in reorganisation, and validating a questionnaire does not establish the effectiveness of an intervention."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As part of SHR’s “Conduite du changement” programme, one possible exercise is to examine a reassignment decision in a Berne-based organisation in federal administration, public health, telecommunications or precision manufacturing."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Colquitt",
      "year": "2001",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Konovsky",
      "year": "1989",
      "source": "Academy of Management Journal"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 403,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2025-12-19-en.jpg?v=4",
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/conduite-du-changement/berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}