Organizational Justice and Job Satisfaction among Nurses

Abstract

Justice and job satisfaction are determinants of quality of work in any organization. The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction among nurses working at Ain Shams University Hospitals. The research design was a descriptive correlational design. The setting of this study was Ain Shams University Hospitals (Medical Ain Shams University, Surgical El-demerdash, obstetric and pediatric hospitals). The study sample was 216 nurses (40 head nurses, 176 staff nurses). Tools of data collection were two tools (organizational justice questionnaire consisted of 18 statements categorized into three domains of organizational justice as follows: distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice and job satisfaction questionnaire covered ten dimensions of satisfaction and contained (64) statements).The findings of this study revealed that the highest percentages of satisfaction was observed among staff nurses in the interpersonal hospital relation (54.5%), and the same was found with the head nurses (75%) and also demonstrated lowest percentages of satisfaction were found in the items related to salary and incentives for both staff nurses and head nurses consequently. It illustrated that both the staff nurses and head nurses have low perception about justice as the highest percentages of them perceive that the justice is low (88.6%, 90%) consequently. The research concluded that there is a positive relationship between organizational justice and nurses' job satisfaction. For that, the study recommended using motivation strategies by nurse leaders to activate nurses, recommended improvement of salaries, benefits and reward system as strategies could be followed.