Perception of organizational justice of the workers of a public university in Mexico hired under the outsourcing modality

Abstract

A descriptive, quantitative study is presented, with a nonexperimental and cross-sectional design, carried out with the objective of describing the level of organizational justice perceived by the workers of a public university, hired under the outsourcing modality and its relationship with some demographic variables. The data collection technique was the survey and the instrument used to measure perceived organizational justice was the Niehoff and Moorman scale (1993) adapted by Patlán et al. (2014) for use with the Mexican population. The sample consisted of 16 workers from a public Higher Education Institution (IES) located in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. The study findings show that workers perceive average levels of organizational justice, predominantly interactional justice, followed by procedural justice and later distributive justice. In turn, it was identified that the academic degree was the only differentiating demographic variable with respect to the levels of organizational justice perceived by the population studied. The main contribution of the study was to consider as a population a segment of workers who, due to the characteristics of their hiring modality, have psychosocial implications that may affect their organizational performance.