The Organisational Justice as a Human Resources Management Practice and its Impact on Employee Engagement: The case of the Prefecture of Attica (Greece)

Authors

  • Athanasios Lamprakis
  • Kalliopi Alamani
  • Athina Malliari
  • Ilias Grivas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/saeb-2018-0004

Keywords:

organisational justice, work engagement, organisational engagement, Prefecture of Attica

Abstract

Organisational justice is a key component in the practice of human resources management in any work environment. The aim of this research survey is to highlight the meaning and importance of organisational justice and its impact on employee engagement. To achieve this aim, except for the literature review, the survey examines the extent to which the distributive, procedural and interactional justice impact on work and organisational engagement, through a research in a certain Greek public organisation. As regards the statistical analysis of the research hypotheses, we used methods of the SPSS 17.00 statistical package. The results showed that the distributive justice significantly impacts on both types of engagement, while no effect was detected between procedural justice and the two types of engagement. The interactional justice was found to determine, partly, only the organisational engagement. The findings overwhelmingly verified the existing bibliographical references, resulting in a noteworthy empirical precedent which could contribute to the field concerning the impact that organisational justice exerts on certain aspects of organisational behaviour.

JEL Codes - M1; M16

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2018-03-31

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Lamprakis, A., Alamani, K., Malliari, A., & Grivas, I. (2018). The Organisational Justice as a Human Resources Management Practice and its Impact on Employee Engagement: The case of the Prefecture of Attica (Greece). Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 65(1), 65–79. https://doi.org/10.2478/saeb-2018-0004

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