ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to review and integrate existing theoretical and empirical literature on justice sources. It reviews the role of justice sources in several current justice literatures, regarding overall versus dimensional justice, event versus entity justice, and source-based paradigms of justice. The chapter provides a overview of two paradigms in organizational justice research that ground perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice in experiences with specific organizational actors or procedures. It explains the source of justice can be important to employee justice judgments and also what specific source characteristics may impact employee fairness perceptions and reactions. Finally, formal authority, the integrity dimension of trustworthiness, and servant leadership address moral motivations for fairness, as they convey agent legitimacy, virtue, and an ethics of care so that employees see the agent as the "right" person to make or communicate a decision.
