ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the fairness and justice approach to ethics. It compares a several different meanings of fairness. The chapter explains what procedural and distributive justices are, and how they complement each other. Like the rights and duties approach, fairness and justice is an approach to ethical reasoning that includes several somewhat different concepts under one umbrella. This approach defines the moral act as the act that treats similarly situated people in similar ways with regard to both process and outcome, and with a sense of proportionality. Fairness and justice are social concepts are an appropriate way to think about ethical intentions and actions. The chapter explains two key points at which fairness and justice become central to managerial decision-making. Fairness and justice, then, like the other approaches to morality, must be situated in the confines of the real world if they are to help people who live in that world to make decisions.
