Work Alienation as a Mediator of the Relationship between Organizational Injustice and Organizational Commitment: Implications for Healthcare Professionals
Organizational justice is an important predictor of several job attitudes and behaviors such as trust, turnover intention, job satisfaction, job stress, organizational commitment, sabotage in workplace. This study examines the relationship between two dimensions of organizational injustice and organizational commitment, and whether work alienation has mediating effects in this relationship. It was hypothesized that distributive and procedural injustice would cause organizational commitment, and dimensions of work alienation would serve as mediators in this relationship. These relationships were tested in a sample of 383 healthcare professionals (nurses and physicians) from public and private hospitals in Istanbul. The results revealed that both distributive injustice and procedural injustice were associated with organizational commitment, and each of the work alienation dimensions partially mediated this relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of this results were discussed below.