Current Directions in Organizational Justice

The study of organizational justice, with its long and rich history, remains vibrant today. The aim of this article is to provide a snapshot of current directions. I set the stage by providing a brief sketch of the past, then I highlight two paradigm shifts-studying justice as a dependent variable and studying justice as a dynamic phenomenon-and show how these are changing how scholars think about and study justice in the workplace. Finally, I suggest one possible direction for the future-to actively investigate why and how injustice persists in the workplace. Altogether, scholars are launching exciting approaches for future research on managers' justice actions, the subjectivity of fairness perceptions, temporal dynamics, and dyadic/multiparty influence processes. Overall, the organizational justice literature is broadening its scope and depth and making increasing contact with other related research domains, a positive trend that should continue to be developed in the future.