Recent occupational accidents urged enterprises to put more importance on occupational health and safety practices. The pressure by both the public authority and the business and social milieu has played an important role in it. The present study investigated occupational health and safety (OHS) practices in five dimensions, i.e. safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, first aid support and training, occupational accident prevention, and organizational safety support. A survey form was developed in order to investigate the effect of OHS practices on work alienation, organizational commitment, and job performance as a throughput of such practices. The data set obtained from private sector enterprises was analyzed by structural equation modeling using least squares method. The findings of the analysis suggested that such OHS practices as safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, first aid support and training, and organizational safety support had a positive effect on organizational commitment. Moreover, it was seen that safety and health rules and organizational safety support decreased alienation, where first aid support and training played a role in increasing work alienation. Finally, safety procedures and risk management, safety and health rules, and organizational safety support had indirect effects on job performance of the employees.
Organizational justice is an important predictor of several job attitudes and behaviors such as trust, turnover intention, job satisfaction, job stress, organizational commitment, sabotage in workplace. This study examines the relationship between two dimensions of organizational injustice and organizational commitment, and whether work alienation has mediating effects in this relationship. It was hypothesized that distributive and procedural injustice would cause organizational commitment, and dimensions of work alienation would serve as mediators in this relationship. These relationships were tested in a sample of 383 healthcare professionals (nurses and physicians) from public and private hospitals in Istanbul. The results revealed that both distributive injustice and procedural injustice were associated with organizational commitment, and each of the work alienation dimensions partially mediated this relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of this results were discussed below.
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