• Corpus ID: 55227680

Mainstreaming equality in construction: the case for organisational justice

@inproceedings{McCarthy2013MainstreamingEI,
  title={Mainstreaming equality in construction: the case for organisational justice},
  author={Chris McCarthy and Derek S. Thomson and Andrew R. J Dainty},
  year={2013}
}

• Chris McCarthy, Derek S. Thomson, A. Dainty
• Published 2013
• Business

Despite over 20 years of initiatives, research, and agendas the UK construction sector
has failed to embed equality into business priorities and approaches; with both women
and minority groups remaining under represented and unfairly treated in construction
trades and the professions. Literature in this area shows low levels of retention
amongst minority groups, high levels of discrimination and key talent from across the
population finding the sector unappealing due to its macho image and the lack of
diversity. We posit that, before equality can be realised in organisations, the majority
of employees must perceive a base level of fairness. To understand how this can be
achieved, a review of Organisational Justice is presented; a theoretical perspective
which can explain how to encourage co-operation across the workforce. In exploring
this we consider how the perceived focus on equality with respect to pre-existing outgroups
works against group differential theory and, therefore, question whether the
co-operation from the in-group must be necessary for any initiative to be successful.