Impacts of Organizational Justice on the Wellbeing of Employees in Nigeria

Abstract

Employees' wellbeing has generated research interest amongst researchers, practitioners and employers who have varied diverse factors to enhance wellbeing in the work environment. This is because the wellbeing of the employee largely determines many positive outcomes the organisation. The study examined the impacts of four components of Organizational Justice on Employees Wellbeing. It varied the ability of the components of distributive, procedural, interactional and informative justice to predict the outcome of wellbeing in the workplace. The study employed a survey design; sampling 350 participants with mean age of 31.2, from both private and public organisations to evaluate the predictions that organisational justice will have impact on the employees' wellbeing in the organisation. With Colquitt Organizational Justice Scale and Work Place Wellbeing Scale to measure organisational justice and employees' workplace wellbeing, the study found distributive and interactive justice to be significant predictors of workplace wellbeing accounting for 16.5% and 17.6% of the variability in workplace wellbeing respectively using Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. The Analysis found the prediction of workplace wellbeing by procedural and informational justice to be insignificant while the interaction prediction of workplace wellbeing by all four forms of organisational justice was insignificant as well. The study highlighted the need for managers to enhance justice system in the organisation and a perception of justice from by the employee so as to enhance positive organisational behaviours and wellbeing in general.