SENSE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND WILLINGNESS OF EMPLOYEES TO COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIORS

Abstract

The aim of the author is to present the results of own research (semi-structured interviews) about the impact of the organizational justice on counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The article completes the gap in knowledge on this subject. The objectives were achieved by empirical and qualitative method (24 semi-structured interviews) conducted by a research team (including the author) in November and December 2016. The results were analysed using IRAMUTEQ. In addition, the author carried out a critical analysis of literature on organizational justice and CWB. The analysis of the research material allows to conclude that the organizational justice affects the counterproductive work behaviors (especially behaviors against the organization). The relationship between these variables is negative. The results completes partly the gap in knowledge on this relationship. The obtained results have a very practical character, especially for the management of the organization. The aim of managers should be to provide organizational justice. Lack of this justice can increase the counterproductive behaviors of employees, which will negatively affect the functioning of the organization. In the future, it is worth carrying out a quantitative research on a representative sample of employees. This will allow to better confirm the analyzed relationship, as well as to measure the strength of this relationship. Main conclusions and recommendations is that the sense of organizational justice affects the counterproductive behaviors of employees.
Keywords: organizational behavior, counterproductive behaviors, sense of organizational fairness, inter-organizational relationships, firm-employee relationships
JEL: M54