The role of organizational justice to develop organizational citizenship behavior: moderating effect of islamic work ethics

  • Muhammad Saeed Rana Pak-Oman Investment Co. Islamabad
  • Umer Iftikhar National Defense University Islamabad.
  • Saliha Gul Abbasi Univeristy of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Muzaffarabad
  • Mazhar Abbas COMSATS Univeristy Islamabad, Vehari Campus.
Keywords: Organizational citizenship behavior; distributive; procedural; interactional; islamic work ethics

Abstract

This paper aims to examine and test the role of organizational justice (distributive, procedural & interactional) to develop and promote organizational citizenship in Pakistani financial institutions under moderation effect of Islamic work ethics on the concepts of social exchange, equity and meta/normative ethics theories. In order to pledge the riven opinion on the relationship of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in the existing literature, Islamic work ethics has been inducted as a moderator. The population of the study is the 19 Financial Institutions of Pakistan and data were collected through a survey based 230 questionnaires. PLS was employed to analyze the data and post analysis; it has been established that all three forms of organizational justice are playing a role in the development of organizational citizenship behavior with varying level of impact and interestingly interactional justice is more dominating. Islamic work ethics has no moderation part in the relationship of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Islamic work ethics is autonomous character for organizational citizenship behavior development. The study has significant contribution to the existing literature available on all the constructs. The imminent studies may expand its scope.

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Author Biographies

Muhammad Saeed Rana, Pak-Oman Investment Co. Islamabad

Pak-Oman Investment Co. Islamabad

Umer Iftikhar, National Defense University Islamabad.

Leadership & Management Studies. National Defense University Islamabad.

Saliha Gul Abbasi, Univeristy of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Muzaffarabad

Department of Management Sciences. Univeristy of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Muzaffarabad

Mazhar Abbas, COMSATS Univeristy Islamabad, Vehari Campus.

Department of Management Sciences. COMSATS Univeristy Islamabad, Vehari Campus.

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2018-10-30
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Rana, M., Iftikhar, U., Gul Abbasi, S., & Abbas, M. (2018). The role of organizational justice to develop organizational citizenship behavior: moderating effect of islamic work ethics. Amazonia Investiga, 7(16), 46-60. Retrieved from https://amazoniainvestiga.info/index.php/amazonia/article/view/372
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