Injustice at work and health: causation or correlation?

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Abstract
Organisational justice has emerged in recent years as a determinant of workers’ health, joining the growing list of other psychosocial aspects of the work environment, including job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and job insecurity. In a series of studies carried out mainly among Finnish workers, perceptions of organisational justice have been linked to poor self-rated health, minor psychiatric disorders, and sickness absences.1,2 In the July issue of this journal, Ferrie and colleagues provide an independent test of low organisational justice as a predictor of psychiatric morbidity within a well established cohort, the British Whitehall II study.3 What do these studies add to the literature on the psychosocial work environment, and do we have sufficient evidence to implicate organisational justice as a causal influence on workers’ health?