ABSTRACT
This chapter considers possible interconnections among perceptions of justice, unethical work behavior, and worker well-being and introduces a psychological approach to justice, and briefly review research linking perceived justice to health and well-being. The state justice refers to perceptions of fairness that are associated with specific places and social interactions, or other precise occurrences. The chapter suggests that unethical work practices may act as a mechanism linking organizational justice judgments to workplace health, and those dispositional differences in these justice judgments influence workplace health by moderating the health and illness effects of unethical work practices. It has suggested several components of psychological justice that may be relevant to unethical work practices, and also directions for initially considering how justice perceptions may interface with unethical work practices to affect worker health. Distributive justice suggests that evaluations of workplace outcomes and allocations as fair or unfair may be reflected in workers' perceptions of their workplace as ethical or unethical.
