The Mediating Role of Procedural Justice between Participation in Decision-Making and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Empirical Study about Skeleton Government Civilian in China

Guangjin Zhang, Gabriel Lee, Xiehua Zou

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DOI: 10.4236/psych.2010.14039                

Abstract

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is very important for organization to adapt changing external conditions. Numerous researches have found that the stable relationship between participation in decision-making (PD) and procedural justice (PJ), between PJ and OCB. This study examined the mediating effect of PJ on the relationship between PD and OCB. Data collected from 288 civilian from skeleton government in Hubei province of China indicated that: procedural justice perception mediates the relationship between participation in decision-making and one of two organizational citizenship behavior dimensions.

Keywords

Participation in Decision-making, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Procedural Justice, Mediating Effect

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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