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Understanding the Relationship between Organisational Justice and Work Engagement in Banking Sector


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Organisational justice leads to fair treatment and ethical behaviour within an organisation. Work engagement is positive work-related state of mind characterised by vigour, dedication, and absorption. Justice acts as a factor to enhance trust in the organisation and make employees more motivated to work together. The present paper aims to study the perception of bank employees towards organisational justice and work engagement and to examine the relationship between organisational justice and work engagement in banking sector. Further, to investigate the impact of organisational justice on work engagement. Data has been collected from 96 bank employees of Haryana state through survey method. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, correlation, and regression have been used to analyse the data. Significant differences are noticed in the perception of bank employees with respect to gender, age and experience. There is positive and significant correlation between organisational justice and work engagement. The result shows that organisational justice has positive and significant impact on employees' work engagement. The theoretical implications of the results are discussed in the paper.

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Organisational Justice, Distributive, Procedural Justice, Work Engagement.
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Authors

Himani Sharma
Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
Reeta Yadav
Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

Abstract


Organisational justice leads to fair treatment and ethical behaviour within an organisation. Work engagement is positive work-related state of mind characterised by vigour, dedication, and absorption. Justice acts as a factor to enhance trust in the organisation and make employees more motivated to work together. The present paper aims to study the perception of bank employees towards organisational justice and work engagement and to examine the relationship between organisational justice and work engagement in banking sector. Further, to investigate the impact of organisational justice on work engagement. Data has been collected from 96 bank employees of Haryana state through survey method. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, correlation, and regression have been used to analyse the data. Significant differences are noticed in the perception of bank employees with respect to gender, age and experience. There is positive and significant correlation between organisational justice and work engagement. The result shows that organisational justice has positive and significant impact on employees' work engagement. The theoretical implications of the results are discussed in the paper.

Keywords


Organisational Justice, Distributive, Procedural Justice, Work Engagement.

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