Influence of Organizational Justice on Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Nurses

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Nursing Administration Department – Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University.

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Background: Justice and its implementation are one of the fundamental and innate needs of
the human. Employees’ exhibit higher levels of performance, loyalty, act more than their job
descriptions and have high level of organizational citizenship behavior when they believe they are
treated fairly at workplace. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between
organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses. Setting: El
Demerdash university Hospital. Design: a descriptive, correlational design was used. The study
subject included 179 nurses. Data collection tools: Data were collected by using organizational
justice questionnaire sheet, and organizational citizenship behavior scale. Results: More than half
of the studied nurses had moderate perception level toward organizational justice, more than half
of the studied nurses had positive organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: There is a
highly statistically significant positive correlation between altruism and distributive justice.
However; there was no statistically significant correlation between organizational justice and
organizational citizenship behavior. Recommendations: Nursing Managers have to respectful to
rights and duties of nurses in making decisions and conducted periodically meeting with their staff
nurses to discuss and solve their work problems.

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