Article
Justice and job engagement: The role of senior management trust
Journal of Organizational Behavior
(2016)
Abstract
We examined whether job engagement mediated the effects of organizational justice dimensions on work behaviors and attitudes. Considering distributive and procedural justice from a motivational perspective, we proposed that job engagement would mediate these two dimensions' relations with the work outcomes of task performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and job satisfaction. We also expected this mediation effect would be magnified when senior management trust (SMT) was high. Our results showed that the simple mediation model was supported only for distributive justice. Alternatively, the indirect effect of procedural justice on work outcomes through job engagement was significant only when SMT was high. Implications of our findings and areas for future research are discussed.
Keywords
- job engagement,
- organizational justice,
- trust,
- performance,
- job attitudes
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter January, 2016
Citation Information
Jeffrey J. Haynie, Kevin W. Mossholder and Stanley G. Harris. "Justice and job engagement: The role of senior management trust" Journal of Organizational Behavior Vol. 37 (2016) p. 889 - 910 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeff-haynie/4/