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organizational justice

employee perceptions of how fair an organization is. It consists of perceptions of the fairness of outcomes that employees receive (distributive justice) and the fairness of the procedures used in distributing these outcomes (procedural justice). See also equity theory.

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January 30th 2025

Meckel’s syndrome

Meckel’s syndrome

a congenital disorder marked by microcephaly; eye, ear, and olfactory abnormalities; and varying degrees of brain-tissue anomalies. Some affected children show premature closure of skull sutures. The patients either are stillborn or die in early infancy. [Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781–1833), German anatomist]