Is MoralIty alway an organIzatIonal good? a review of Current Conceptions of Morality in organizational and social Justice theory and research

Recent justice theory and research has variously proposed morality as a motive, an aspect of identity, and as a characteristic of attitudes. The current chapter provides a critical review of each of these approaches, and concludes that (a) morality plays an important role in fairness reasoning, (b) morality has ties to both prosocial and antisocial reactions and behavior, (c) it may be more useful to take an ideographic than nomothetic approach to studying morality, and (d) managing moral diversity may present greater organizational challenges than managing other kinds of diversity.