Deontic justice: the role of moral principles in workplace fairness

According to research, unfairness in the employment context leads to such things as theft, sabotage and even violence. Investigates why some employees respond in such an extreme and sometimes risky fashion, and indeed why people act in reaction to injustice in the first place. Considers the instrumental and interpersonal models of justice motives and calls for a new research agenda to explore the antecedents of justice, cognitive processing mechanisms for generating justice judgments, and the consequences of injustice. Notes that the deontic approach to justice emphasizes the role of morality. (Quotes from original text)