Procedural Justice, Distributive Justice and Organizational Politics as Correlates of Job Satisfaction in a sample of Academics from Awka City, Nigeria

Abstract

This study, investigated the relationship between procedural justice, distributive justice organizational politics and job satisfaction. A total of 223 employees of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka served as participants in the study. Out of the 223 participants 115 (51.6%) were males while 108 (48.4%) were females. The ages of the participants ranged from 22 to 56 years with a mean age of 33.75 and standard deviation of 9.78. The participants were selected through stratified random sampling. Four instruments were used in the study. They include job satisfaction scale, organisational politics scale, procedural justice scale, and distributive justice scale. Pearson product moment correlation was used as statistical tool to test three hypotheses in the study. Hypothesis one which stated that there will be a significant relationship between procedural justice and job satisfaction was accepted at r (223) = .16, P<.05. Hypothesis two which stated that there will be a significant relationship between distributive justice and job satisfaction was accepted at r (223) = .21, P<.05. Hypothesis three which stated that there will be a significant relationship between organizational politics and job satisfaction was accepted at r (223) = .19, P<.05. Based on the theory of reciprocity, the researcher recommend that government and organizational agencies should device means of ameliorating organisational politics and moderating organizational justice with respect to job satisfaction of employees.