PROCEDURAL JUSTICE, JOB AUTONOMY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR AMONG NURSES

Abstract

The primary objective of this research was to examine the influence of procedural justice, job Autonomy and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among nurses. Its purpose was to determine the association between Procedural Justice (PJ), job autonomy and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among nurses from various public and private sectors. Based on previous literature, following hypothesis were formulated: 1) there would be a significant negative relationship between procedural justice and job autonomy. 2) There would be a significant negative relationship between job autonomy and organizational citizenship behavior. 3) There would be significant positive relationship between Procedural Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. 4) Public hospital nurses would have high levels of job autonomy as compare to private hospital sector nurses. The convenient sample consisted of 260 nurses from age range of 18 years to 60 years working in private and public hospitals in urban and rural areas of Sialkot. A questionnaire comprised of self-developed demographic sheet with scales of Measurement of distributive and procedural justice (Lucas, 2007), Job autonomy scale (Fida & Najam, 2019) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist short form (Spector, 2010). Descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, Pearson product moment correlation, one way ANOVA and independent sample t-test were computed. The findings suggested that procedural justice has a significantly weak negative correlation with job autonomy (r=-.15, p<.05) and a significantly moderate positive correlation with organizational citizenship behavior (r= .484, p< .001). Pearson's product of job autonomy and organizational citizenship behavior was found to be weak negative and statistically significant (r= -.273, p<.001). One way ANOVA results showed that diploma-holder nurses have a higher level of job autonomy as compared to any other education programs. Independent sample t-test was used to examine the private and public sectors difference showing a significant difference in private sector healthcare professionals (M=70.51, SD= 10.89) and the government sector healthcare professionals (M=74.08, SD=12.89), t(3.32) , p < .01.   The study highlighted the significance of fairness of procedures and approaches in the hospitals aided the nurses in the performance of assigned responsibilities independently, therefore resulting in the organization’s successful and efficient operation.