Procedural justice is the idea of fairness of the rules involved in the allocation of rewards. Distributive justice involves fairness of the actual reward, in relation to some standard. An employee who receives an unfair evaluation should have the opportunity to appeal that decision which is a basic principle of procedural justice. Employees should have input into design of the appraisal process, including requirements that supervisors provide documentation of the behaviors that led to the ratings. Supervisors have control over procedural justice when creating procedures and policies that will show the response will be fair and consistent no matter who is involved. A In using the principles of procedural justice to avoid an employee to quit, I would show the employee previous cases where even high-level employees were reprimanded, received bad evaluations, or let go. I would show that the company is fair and impartial when administering all evaluations.
Milkovich, G., Newman, J. (2016). Compensation (12th ed). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.