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Promoting employee wellbeing

The relevance of work characteristics and organizational justice

Bibliographic Data

ID22945700
AuthorsKatrina J Lawson (Deakin University, corresponding author), A J Noblet, Andrew Noblet (0000-0002-3498-6838, Deakin University), John Rodwell (0000-0003-1682-0719, Deakin University), J J Rodwell
Year2009
Volume24
Issue3
Pages223-233
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Promotion International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/heapro/dap025
PMID19596657
OpenAlexW2104809190
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited37

Research focusing on the relationship between organizational justice and health suggests that perceptions of fairness can make significant contributions to employee wellbeing. However, studies examining the justice-health relationship are only just emerging and there are several areas where further research is required, in particular, the uniqueness of the contributions made by justice and the extent to which the health effects can be explained by linear, non-linear and/or interaction models. The primary aim of the current study was to determine the main, curvilinear and interaction effects of work characteristics and organizational justice perceptions on employee wellbeing (as measured by psychological health and job satisfaction). Work characteristics were measured using the demand-control-support (DCS) model (Karasek and Theorell, 1990) and Colquitt's (2001) four justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational) assessed organizational justice (Colquitt, 2001). Hierarchical regression analyses found that in relation to psychological health, perceptions of justice added little to the explanatory power of the DCS model. In contrast, organizational justice did account for unique variance in job satisfaction, the second measure of employee wellbeing. The results supported linear relationships between the psychosocial working conditions and the outcome measures. A significant two-way interaction effect (control x support at work) was found for the psychological health outcome and the procedural justice by distributive justice interaction was significant for the job satisfaction outcome. Notably, the findings indicate that in addition to traditional job stressors, health promotion strategies should also address organizational justice.

Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Interactional justice · Job satisfaction · Multilevel model · Organizational commitment · Organizational justice · Perception · Political science · Procedural justice · Psychosocial · Employment and Welfare Studies · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being

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