Relationship among Organizational Justice, Work Engagement and Positive Organizational Behavior of Nurses via Mediation of their Personal Career Goals

Abstract

Background & Aim: Each group of staff has their individual career goals in work place. The aim of the study was to determinate mediational role of personal career goals attainment in relation to organizational justice, work engagement and positive organizational behavior. Material & Methods: It was a correlational study. The statistical population was all female nurses working in Isfahan Alzahra hospital in 2013. Among them 208 nurses were recruited by stratified proportion to size random sampling method. The research instruments were organizational justice inventory (Niehoff & Moorman, 1993), Utrecht Work Engagement scale (2002), a researcher made personal career goals attainment tool and positive organizational behavior (Nguyen & Nguyen 2011). The direct and indirect effects were examined using Normal distribution test and Bootstrap procedure in Preacher and Hayes (2004) SPSS Macro program (2004). Results: The findings indicated direct and indirect effects of career goals attainment in relation to organizational justice, work engagement and positive organizational behavior (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results have significant implications for managers of hospitals toward establishing organizational justice and consequently, creating career engagement and positive organizational behavior among the nurses. The organizational justice is related to positive organizational behavior (hope, optimism, selfefficacy, and resiliency) and work engagement through the personal career goals attainment. Therefore, hospital managers can benefit from all profits of positive organizational behavior and work engagement.

The Effects of Organizational Justice on Positive Organizational Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Sample Survey and a Situational Experiment

“…Organizational justice is found to be a key factor of many organizational outcome variables, such as trust, commitment, job satisfaction, organizational citizen behavior, job performance, and POB (Alexander and Ruderman, 1987 ; Moorman, 1991 ; McFarlin and Sweeney, 1992 ; Cohen-Charash and Spector, 2001 ; Colquitt et al, 2001 ; Wong et al, 2006 ; Karriker and Williams, 2009 ; Zainalipour et al, 2010 ; Keyvanar et al, 2014 ; Khan et al, 2016 ; Nastiezaie and Jenaabadi, 2016 ). For instance, Alexander and Ruderman ( 1987 ) suggested that all fairness variables, as a group, are significantly associated with employees' work-related attitudes and behaviors and procedural fairness and distributive fairness have distinct effects on the organizational outcomes.…”

“…For instance, Alexander and Ruderman ( 1987 ) suggested that all fairness variables, as a group, are significantly associated with employees' work-related attitudes and behaviors and procedural fairness and distributive fairness have distinct effects on the organizational outcomes. Keyvanar et al ( 2014 ) studied organizational justice and POB in the context of hospital and found that organizational justice is related to POB (hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resiliency) and work engagement through the attainment of personal career goals. Nastiezaie and Jenaabadi ( 2016 ) showed that organizational justice has a significant and positive correlation with POB A small number of researches explored how perceptions of fair treatment influence the employee's beneficial behavior.…”

Impact of Organisational Behaviour on Firm Performance: Selected Health Care Institutions in Nigeria

“…Also, in Shahid Sadough Hospital in Yazd, Iran, it was observed that there is a significant relationship between organisational behaviour and the hospital productivity even though, the employee behaviour is said to be improved when there is any policy that brings about a better organisational justice perception and in return increases health sector outcome (Bahrami et al, 2014). Corroborating behaviour being influenced by perceived organisational justice is the work of (Keyvanar et al, 2014). They opined that organisational justice is positively related to organisational behaviour, thereby encouraging whatever will foster OCB amidst the nurses in the hospital establishment.…”