The Relationship Between Organizational Justice and Job Satisfaction An Empirical Study

Abstract

Organizational justice, which is one of the basic principles in the collective and cooperation based actions in organizations, has been an investigated issue in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, human resources management and organizational behavior. As well, job satisfaction, besides being one of the most investigated subjects in organizational researches, is a concept related to justice perceptions. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between organizational justice perception and job satisfaction. Research was carried out in a firm operating in the automotive industry with the participation of its 310 employees in Turkey. According to the research findings, organizational justice perception is introduced as one of the factors those determine job satisfaction. From the perspective of dimensions, although distribution justice and interpersonal justice perception have influence on job satisfaction, it is found out that there is no influence in terms of procedural and informational justice perceptions

Keywords

• Justice, organizational justice, job satisfaction

Örgütsel Adalet İle İş Doyumu İlişkisi: Ampirik Bir Çalışma

Abstract

Örgütlerdeki ortak ve işbirliğine dayanan hareketlerin temel esaslarından birisi olan örgütsel adalet, endüstri ve örgüt psikolojisi, insan kaynakları yönetimi ve örgütsel davranış alanlarında incelenmekte olan bir konudur. İş doyumu ise örgütsel araştırmalarda en çok incelenen konulardan biri olması yanında adalet algıları ile ilişkili bir kavramdır. Bu araştırmanın amacı örgütsel adalet algısı ve iş doyumu ilişkisini incelemektir. Araştırma Türkiye’de otomotiv sektöründe faaliyet gösteren bir işletmede, 310 işgörenin katılımıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre, örgütsel adalet algısı, iş doyumunu belirleyen etmenlerden biri olarak ortaya konmaktadır. Boyutlar açısından bakıldığında ise, dağıtım adaleti ve kişilerarası adalet algısının iş doyumu üzerinde etkili olmasına karşın, işlemsel ve bilgisel adalet algıları açısından herhangi bir etkinin olmadığı tespit edilmiştir

Keywords

• Adalet, örgütsel adalet, iş doyumu

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