Abstract
This study examines the relationship between the four dimensions of organisational justice, namely, distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice, and workers’ counterproductive behaviour, and whether work alienation has mediating effect in this relationship. These relationships were tested in a sample of 300 blue-collar workers operating in Egyptian public industrial context, only 236 responded positively. Results revealed that there are significant relationships between organisational injustice (in its four types) and counterproductive behaviours, and each of the work alienation dimensions partially mediated this relationship. These findings were discussed in the light of extant literature. Research limitations and implications for future research were reported.
Highlights
Organisational justice is one of the main constructs in different multi-disciplinary areas of social sciences
In the light of the above explanation, this study proposes that the three dimensions of work alienation have mediating role between the multi-dimensions of organisational justice and Counterproductive work behaviour (CWB)
Major concerns were focused on controlling errors derived from: (1) items characteristics; a five point scale was used in order to have metric gains as the equidistance between all points of the scale were assured (Foddy, 1994); some items were reversed in order to avoid acquiescence error; (2) context of the items
Summary
Organisational justice is one of the main constructs in different multi-disciplinary areas of social sciences. One, it examines the effect of the negative perception of unfairness and injustice among Egyptian workers, and its associated deviant repercussions on both personal and professional levels at work place. It examines the effect of the negative perception of unfairness and injustice among Egyptian workers, and its associated deviant repercussions on both personal and professional levels at work place It focuses on blue-collar workers in public industrial sector, which has been a neglected area of study by many; whilst more attention was given to white-collar employees in higher paying jobs, like banks and multinational corporations. Said studies are sparse and are imperatively needed for improvement and betterment
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