Finally, anticipatory injustice is positively related to change-resistance and turnover intentions, which could also
have negative effect on employees’ commitment. It shows that employees often resist the move to teams because
they would anticipate distributive injustice and fear the change to teams might be a smokescreen for layoffs.
Moreover, employees also fear that working in teams would increase confrontations with co-workers. Under
such circumstances, employees are likely to resist the change to work in teams; even worse, they might reduce
their organisational commitment or quit their jobs. Therefore, it is very difficult to motivate people working in
teams with the influence of distributive injustice. As examined, procedural justice could moderate employees’
negative reactions. However, it suggests that obtaining high levels of anticipatory justice is likely to be difficult
in a business world. (Shapiro and Kirkman, 1999)