Gauging the relationship between organizational justice and employee job performance of delta steel company limited: An empirical investigation

Authors

  • Emmanuel Igbomor Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria.

Keywords:

Organizational Justice, Employee Job Performance, procedural justice, distributive justice, informational justice and interactional justice.

Abstract

This study examined the impact of organizational justice and employee job performance using Delta Steel Company Limited, Gold Insurance Plc and Asaba Manufacturing Inc. as a study. A total of 200 respondents were selected from the staff of the organizations using random sampling techniques. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlation were employed in analyzing the data retrieved from the respondent. Findings reveals that positive and significant relationship exists between procedural justice, distributive justice, informational justice and interactional justice and employee job performance. The study therefore recommend that management should be fair in justice so as to ensure that there is no preferential treatment to employees, head of each department of the organization need to treat workers with fairness so as to bring about positive outcome and commitment of the employee towards work, organization needs to find a way in convincing employee of the importance of reward, there is need for management to create arena for interaction of staff so as allow them to work hand in hand and learn more, thin would keep boost their commitment and Management of the selected companies should ensure that there exists no preferential treatment when it comes to justice.

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2025-10-03

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Igbomor, E. (2025). Gauging the relationship between organizational justice and employee job performance of delta steel company limited: An empirical investigation. Journal of Policy and Development Studies, 15(1), 9–13. Retrieved from https://j.arabianjbmr.com/index.php/jpds/article/view/1336