Influence of Organizational Justice on Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Nurses

Abstract

Background: Justice and its implementation are one of the fundamental and innate needs of the human. Employees' exhibit higher levels of performance, loyalty, act more than their job descriptions and have high level of organizational citizenship behavior when they believe they are treated fairly at workplace. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses. Setting: El Demerdash university Hospital. Design: a descriptive, correlational design was used. The study subject included 179 nurses. Data collection tools: Data were collected by using organizational justice questionnaire sheet, and organizational citizenship behavior scale. Results: More than half of the studied nurses had moderate perception level toward organizational justice, more than half of the studied nurses had positive organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: There is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between altruism and distributive justice. However; there was no statistically significant correlation between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Recommendations: Nursing Managers have to respectful to rights and duties of nurses in making decisions and conducted periodically meeting with their staff nurses to discuss and solve their work problems.

Organizational justice and workplace spirituality: Their relation to organizational silence behavior among nurses

“…This may be due to the different perceptions of the studied nurses about organizational justice in salary, decisions, and personal relationships from their managers. This finding is in agreement with Mohamed et al, [40] who found that the perceived level of the individuals of the sample was moderate for the organizational justice in all its dimensions. Also, Mohamed et al [41] showed that more than half of the nurses had a moderate level of perceived organizational justice.…”

The Relationship between Perceived Organizational Trust and Nurse’s Organizational Citizenship Behavior

“…Conversely, the present findings are in disagreement with that of Mohammed et al (28) ,who examined the influence of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behavior among nurses at El Demerdash university hospital in Egypt, that displayed high organizational citizenship behavior level. As well, Al-Ahmadi et al (29) ,who identified the level of organizational citizenship behavior and its relation to job satisfaction in the nursing field in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that displayed high organizational citizenship behavior level, and Mustafa et al (30) , who determined the relation among job crafting, work involvement and organizational citizenship behavior among head nurses at Zagazig university hospitals in Egypt, and reported high organizational citizenship behavior level.…”

“…On the other hand, this result was in disagreement with some previous studies such as that was carried out by Metwally et al (25) , who reported that there was nonstatistically significance relation between personal characteristics and organizational citizenship behavior and the study done by Mohammed et al (28) , who reported that there was non-statistically significant relation between organizational citizenship behavior of the studied nurses and their personal characteristics.…”

Relationship between Resilience and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Staff Nurses

“…It aimed to assess organizational citizenship behavior among staff nurses. It developed by Organ, (1990), and was adopted from Mohamed, (2018). It contains of 20 items classified into five dimensions as following description:…”

“…Study subjects had low citizenship behavior if total score was less than 60 %. While it is considered moderate if score was ranged from 60-75% and it is considered high if total score was more than 75% (Mohamed, 2018).…”