Impact de l’allégeance en ses dimensions idéologique et mercenaire sur les réactions aux injustices professionnelles
Several studies have shown the existence of a norm of allegiance that we can define as the social valorizationof the individuals avoiding to question the social environment, and in particular to question the powers hierarchyin a social system. Thus, it is possible to distinguish the individuals showing allegiance, who are sociallyvalorized, and to oppose them to the rebels, devalorised. Recent studies showed that the norm of allegiance wasnot homogeneous and that it was possible to make a dichotomy according to “ideological” versus “mercenary”reasons conducting to the allegiance or not allegiance, this dichotomy leading to four categories (ideological allegiance,mercenary allegiance, ideological rebellion and mercenary rebellion).In the other hand, facing a person unjustly victim of professional injustice, we can react by adopting “passive”strategies (using for example the victim’s moral or behavioral responsibility: cf. Lerner), but we also canadopt “active” strategies leading to an objective re-establishment of the justice.Our purpose was to study the impact of the allegiance on the passive vs active reactions to professionalinjustices by examining in a differentiated way the ideological versus mercenary reasons of this allegiance ornot allegiance. Our results show that the global as well as the ideological or mercenary allegiance lead to morepassivity. We also observe a gender effect (men and women use different strategies) and a statute effect with adifferenciation between employees and job seekers.