The district manager of a chain of 24-hour convenience stores is very concerned about her stores’ rate of employee theft, which is currently about twice the industry average and rising rapidly. Because this problem has arisen suddenly, you and she suspect that it is a response to some recently introduced changes in the company’s overtime policy. Managers who used to be paid time-and-a-half for each hour they worked over 40 are now paid a flat salary that typically results in lower total wages for the same amount of work. Answer the following questions based on the information in this chapter.
1. What form of justice appears to have been violated by the new pay policy? Explain your answer.

2. In this case, the new pay policy was implemented without first discussing it with store managers. Do you think that the theft rate might have been lower had this been done? What else could be done to reduce the growing theft rate?
3. The company’s code of ethics expressly prohibits theft, but other than being handed a copy along with other company documents and forms upon being hired, hardly anyone pays attention to it. What do you think could be done, if anything, to enhance the effectiveness of the code of ethics as a weapon for combating the theft problem?