Relationship Between Organizational Justice and Occupational Stress Among Indian Police Personnel

Abstract

Abstract: The present research was conducted with the purpose to determine the relationship between Organizational Justice and Occupational Stress and to explore the relationship between Organizational Justice and the underlying factors of Occupational Stress among Indian police personnel. A total of 51 employees (31 male and 20 female) serving in police force among different states of India were taken through simple random sampling technique. Tools used for data collection were Organizational Justice Scale by Colquitt, 2001 and Occupational Stress Index by Srivastava and Singh, 1984. Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson product-moment were used for data analysis. The result stated that mean score of Occupational Stress was more than the mean score of Organizational Justice. It indicated the dominating factors of Occupational Stress which collectively increases the perception of Occupational Stress among existing participants. The most dominating factors were Role Overload, Strenuous working condition, Responsibility for persons and Role Conflict; moderate dominating factors were Role Ambiguity, Unreasonable group and Political pressures, Under-participation, Powerlessness, Poor peer Relations, Intrinsic impoverishment and Unprofitability. While the least dominating factor was Low status. In addition, the result described that Organizational Justice is negatively correlated with Occupational Stress. Simultaneously, it was found that Organizational Justice is negatively associated with the factors of Occupational Stress like Role Overload, Role Ambiguity, Role Conflict, Unreasonable group and Political pressures, Under participation, Powerlessness, Poor peer Relations, Intrinsic impoverishment, Low status and Unprofitability; and positively correlated with factor Responsibility for persons. The correlation coefficients between the given variables were found significant at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, it is recommended that management should try to reduce Occupational Stress while encouraging fair treatment to promote Organizational Justice among police personnel.