RETALIATION IN THE WORKPLACE - THE ROLES OF DISTRIBUTIVE, PROCEDURAL,AND INTERACTIONAL JUSTICE

The authors investigated the relationship between organizational justi ce and organizational retaliation behavior-adverse reactions to percei ved unfairness by disgruntled employees toward their employer-in a sam ple of 240 manufacturing employees. Distributive, procedural, and inte ractional justice interacted to predict organizational retaliation beh avior. A relation between distributive justice and retaliation was fou nd only when there was low interactional and procedural justice. The 2 -way interaction of distributive and procedural justice was observed o nly at a low level of interactional justice, and the 2-way interaction of distributive and interactional justice was observed only at a low level of procedural justice.