ABSTRACT
The entity justice approach extends the event paradigm by considering justice as a characteristic of people or organizations. Building on the work of Farrell, this chapter considers the nomological networks for entity justice and entity injustice, arguing that entity justice may be distinguishable from entity injustice. Among philosophers, a venerable distinction has been made between justice as a characteristic of particular events and justice as a characteristic of individuals. The first view, which is focused on choices made in particular situations, is probably most familiar to empirical investigators of workplace fairness. The other view, that justice is a characteristic of individuals and perhaps also of social institutions, is venerable as well. As predicted by Choi, event justice and entity justice interacted. Specifically, event justice predicted organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) and trust towards the organizations, but mostly when organizational entity justice was low. Entity justice emphasizes the possibility that people have relatively stable dispositions to behave justly or unjustly.
