ABSTRACT
Research on justice in organizations has flourished in the last 30 years. However, despite early recognition that employee reactions to justice were both cognitive and affective, there has been relatively little work on the relationship between justice and emotion. Indeed, it has only been the last decade in which scholars have begun to consider this relationship in earnest. In this chapter, we review the recent empirical work on justice and emotion. Then, we discuss how current work on emotion might inform justice research. Previous work integrating justice and emotion has proved useful. Yet, this research typically is justice-centric. That is, it integrates emotion into a justice framework. We approach this integration from the emotion lens. In doing so, we hope to provide insight about the current state of the field as well as guidance for future research on organizational justice and emotion.
