Moral Virtues, Fairness Heuristics, Social Entities, and Other Denizens of Organizational Justice

• Published in: Journal of vocational behavior Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 164 - 209
• Main Authors: Cropanzano, Russell, Byrne, Zinta S., Bobocel, D.Ramona, Rupp, Deborah E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01-04-2001
• Subjects: Employee Attitudes; Evaluative Thinking; Fairness; Job Performance; Moral Values; Organizations (Groups); Social Justice
• ISSN: 0001-8791; 1095-9084
• DOI: 10.1006/jvbe.2001.1791

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in the study of organizational justice. Employee perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice have been related to a variety of important work outcomes, such as performance, citizenship behaviors, and job attitudes. Despite the health and vigor of justice research, the rapid growth of this literature has made salient a variety of new issues. In the present paper, we discuss these concerns as three questions: How do workers formulate appraisals of justice?; Why do individuals do so?; and What precisely is being appraised? Each of these three questions provides a framework for reviewing the current state of our knowledge, proposing new research paradigms, and providing directions for future inquiry.