Organizational Justice leading to Citizenship Behavior: A Study of University Education Faculties in Punjab (Pakistan)

Abstract

The study was conducted with an aim to find out the effect of organizational justice on citizenship behavior in education faculties of the Punjab province (Pakistan). The sample of the study comprised of 285 teacher-educators (lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors, professors) teaching at the Education Faculties of twelve recognized universities, eight in public and four in the private sector. The technique for selecting sample was stratified proportionate random sampling. The instruments of data collection were adapted for the study based on Organizational Justice Scale (OJS) by Neihoff and Moorman (1993), and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (OCBS) by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman, and Fetter (1990). Two hundred thirty eight teacher-educators responded with a return rate of 83.5%. The results of the study showed that organizational justice on the whole and each of its dimension viz. distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice, significantly and positively predicted teachers’ citizenship behavior. Further, no significant difference was found between public and private universities with regards to the effect of organizational justice on citizenship behavior.