What are the distributive implications of utilitarianism? Is it compatible with a concern for equality, as many utilitarians have argued? We analyse these questions in context pure allocation problem. consider an infinitely-lived economy and, drawing on behavioural literature, assume that individuals reference-dependent preferences: agents’ utility is function current consumption and reference ...

This paper tests three competing hypotheses on the relative importance of distributive and procedural justice in predicting satisfaction with productivity gainsharing. The analysis provides support for one of the hypotheses, which states that the payout will determine which type of fairness (procedural or distributive) is more predictive of gainsharing satisfaction.

the purpose of this research was to study to moderating e ffects of personality characteristics on the r elationship between perceived organizational j ustice' dimensions and w ork place violence intension . the research method was descriptive-correlational and statistical population consisted of male employees of a big automotive industry, from among which 269 employees were selected via ...

Retributive justice is a system by which offenders are punished in proportion to the moral magnitude of their intentionally committed harms. This chapter lays out the emerging psychological principles that underlie citizens’ intuitions regarding punishment. We rely on experimental methods and conclude that intuitions of justice are broadly consistent with the principles of retributive justice, ...