ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that improving the various aspects of organizational justice that permeate organizational functioning is a powerful tool for health-promoting work environments. It considers employee health and well-being in a very broad manner, using the definition of stress that focuses on individuals' physiological, affective, and behavioral reactions to stressors, indicating problems for health and well-being. The chapter asserts that justice can be conceived as an important component of stress no matter which theoretical position on work-related stress one adopts. Organizational justice has been conceptualized as composed of four dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice) and as a more general, global perception. Focusing on justice is an important primary prevention intervention, helping organizations to avoid the consequences of a burned-out, ill, and absent workforce. But corrective aspects of organizational justice interventions indicate that they are relevant for secondary prevention as well.
