ABSTRACT
This chapter explores employees' justice judgments of their salary, either they are moral judgments, or predominantly reflect material self-interests in higher wages. It presents the motivational structure behind people's justice judgments can be examined in different ways. The chapter will employ an empirical construct validation. Empirically, the reverse situation seems to be more important, the situation in which moral judgments are part of the individual's general set of evaluation criteria. The chapter identifies two social institutions, the firm and the works council, that have to face both moral and self-interest judgments in various ways. The firm is expected to offer the highest wages possible. In contrast, employees expect the works council to, surpervise adherence to social rights in the firm and to enforce distributive justice regarding. It assume that the employees will not expect the works council to push for increasing wages, as it is statutorily forbidden to initiate collective actions.
