The Effect of Organizational Justice on Employee Job Engagement from the Perspective of the Islamic System

Ahmadzadeh, Somayeh; Samaili, Ali; Esmaeili, Mohammad Mahdi

The Effect of Organizational Justice on Employee Job Engagement from the Perspective of the Islamic System

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Somayeh Ahmadzadeh

Ali samaili

mohammad mahdi esmaeili

Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Innovation, Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Organizational justice is considered as one of the key factors in promoting the health and efficiency of organizations and plays an important role in improving employee behavior and job satisfaction. Considering the importance of justice in the Islamic system and its effect on job engagement, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of organizational justice on job engagement of employees of Isfahan Regional Water Company.This study is of an applied and descriptive-survey type, and its statistical population includes the company's employees, who were selected through a random sampling of 253 people. Data were collected using the standard questionnaire of Shimamura et al. (2021), whose validity was confirmed through expert opinion and convergent and divergent validity methods, and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficients, factor loadings, and composite reliability.Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling and Smart PLS 3 software. The findings showed that organizational justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, and interactional) have a positive and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction. Organizational citizenship behavior also had a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction and job engagement. Job satisfaction also had a positive and significant effect on employee job engagement.In addition, organizational justice had a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction through the mediation of organizational citizenship behavior, and organizational citizenship behavior had a positive and significant effect on job engagement through the mediation of job satisfaction. These results emphasize the importance of developing organizational justice and strengthening organizational citizenship behavior to increase employee satisfaction and engagement.

Keywords

Organizational justice

organizational citizenship behavior

job satisfaction

job involvement

Subjects

Topics related to the Islamic Revolution

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