ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR AMONG ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN IN UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA
Abstract
Organizational justice plays an essential role in affecting extra role behaviour which is above and beyond formal role requirements. It is believe that there is a relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviour. Therefore, this study was aimed to identify the level of organizational justice and the level of organizational citizenship as well as to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviour among academic librarian in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Library. This study is a cross-sectional study whereby data is collected from a total of 105 respondents. The measures used to assess the two variables were Organizational Justice Scale by Niehoff & Moorman (1993) and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour Scale by Kumar & Shah (2015). The data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science version 22. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used for data analysis. Findings showed that there was a moderate level of organizational justice and a high level of organizational citizenship behaviour among the academic librarian. Result also reveals that there is a significant strong positive relationship between all dimension of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviour among the academic librarian with interactional justice was found to have the strongest relationship with organizational citizenship behaviour followed by distributive and procedural justice. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance justice in organization by looking into the organizational policy and holding training programs for employees to foster them the tendency to display voluntary behaviours.
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