THE DARK TRIAD AND PERCEPTIONS OF ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AMONG TEACHING STAFF IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

Katarina Sokić,Sarwar Khawaja,Fayyaz Hussain Qureshi

doi:10.46827/ejes.v8i12.4074

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The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between The Dark Triad components (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy), and perceptions of the different organisational justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, and interactional) among teaching staff in private higher education. The sample included 277 participants (106 male, 171 female) aged 23 to 65. Self-report data were collected online using the Short Dark Triad, and The Organisational Justice Perceptions Questionnaire. Results have shown significant gender differences in the perception of organisational justice. Psychopathy was negatively related to the perception of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice only in men. Narcissism uniquely positively predicted distributive, procedural, and interactional justice in women. Machiavellianism showed no significant effects on perceptions of organisational justice dimensions in both men and women, which suggests that Machiavellianism operates similarly across gender regarding organisational justice. The positive effect of narcissism on the perception of procedural and interactional justice was more pronounced when associated with low Machiavellianism, which indicates that Machiavellianism indirectly negatively affects the perception of organisational justice. The results highlight the importance of including dark traits in explaining the perception of organisational justice. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0950/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Scientific and practical interest in organisational justice and its interaction with employee personal characteristics has grown during the past decades (Kwantes, 2019; Törnroos et al, 2018)
Based on the above literature review, we proposed that Machiavellianism would be negatively related to the perception of organisational justice, narcissism would be positively related to the perception of organisational justice, and psychopathy would be negatively related to the perception of organisational justice
Alpha reliabilities for the SD3 scales were .81, .73, and .75 for Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, and for the Organisational Justice Perceptions Questionnaire (OJPQ) alpha reliabilities were .97, .95, and .96 for distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice, respectively

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Scientific and practical interest in organisational justice and its interaction with employee personal characteristics has grown during the past decades (Kwantes, 2019; Törnroos et al, 2018). Organisational justice is one of the major determinants of job satisfaction, job performance, and employees' affective organisational trust commitment. It could help build synergy between organisational goals and employee expectations (Fat et al 2010; Suifan, 2019). The framework of organisational justice (organisational structure, climate, reward systems, conflict management, etc.) reflect on an individual employee in depending on the employee's personal characteristics such as personality, behaviour, attitudes, values, beliefs, cynicism, work stress, and negative emotion (Colquitt et al, 2006; Grawitch et al, 2006; Kwantes & Bond, 2019; Pérez-Rodríguez et al, 2019)

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