Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Study of Public Sector Organizations in Western Province, Sri Lanka

Abstract

Although, the study of organizational justice has increased markedly in the past few years, little work has focused on the impact of justice perceptions on organizational citizenship behaviour. This study examines the impact from perceptions of fairness on organizational citizenship behaviors in 102 sample drawn from four public sector organizations in western province, Sri Lanka. A theoretical basis for a relationship between fairness and citizenship was drawn from equity theory and other theories of social exchange. Findings of the study revealed that that there is an impact from distribute, procedural and interactional justice on employee citizenship behavior and further, as a whole there is a significant impact from Organizational justice on Employee citizenship behaviour.