ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AS ANTECEDENT OF JOB SATISFACTION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AMONG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS

Organizational actions involving distribution of resources, procedures involved in decisions concerning the distribution and the nature of communication for conveying the decisions are evaluated by the employees for their fairness. Organizational justice is the employee perception of the fairness of the organizational actions and decisions. The perception of justice (fairness) an employee holds towards organizational actions shapes the employee’s attitude and behavior. Organizational justice – outcome relationship has been widely investigated and organizational justice is found to promote job satisfaction, organizational commitment and trust. This research has specifically investigated the impact of the dimensions of organizational justice (distributive, procedural and transactional justice) on job satisfaction among professionals employed in the Information technology industry. A sample of 146 respondents was collected by convenience sampling method. The results have proven the organizational justice as significantly related to job satisfaction. Distributive and procedural justice was found to be strong predictors of job satisfaction.