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Abstract
The present study explored the propensity of individuals to engage in Organizational Retaliation Behaviors (ORBs) when perceiving organizational injustices in a group context. Situational Scenarios that incorporated distributive, procedural, and interactional injustices while working on a group project were provided. Measures of whether ORBs occurred directly toward other group members or to the organization itself were assessed. In addition, level of Identity Threat was explored to see if it exacerbated the propensity to engage in ORBs. Data from 220 participants were collected. A One-way Analysis of Variance indicated that perceived injustice was strongly related to ORBs and participants had a higher tendency of expressing ORBs toward other group members when compared to the organization itself. Finally, results indicated that participants who felt as if their self-identity was threatened by injustice had the highest propensity to retaliate.
