Organizational justice perception of Indonesia civil servants, does it matter?

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of organizational justice to positive emotion of civil servants in south and central Sulawesi Province which impact their job satisfaction. Organizational justice consists of distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice. We propose that the perception of organizational justice by civil servants on these two provinces will influence the formation of positive emotion which will impact their job satisfaction. This study provides a guidance to civil servants at leadership level to design a form of justice which influence positive emotions that have an impact on the work satisfaction of their subordinates. The subject on this research are civil servants employees in South and Central Sulawesi Province area. Purposive sampling method is employ with 400 respondents as sample requirement and 350 questionnaires were returned which made the response rate of 87.5 percent. Data is analyze using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with two phase approaches, namely: calculation model and structural model. The results demonstrate that organizational justice has the ability to explain and predict positive emotion. Furhermore, positive emotion has the ability to explain and predict job satisfaction for civil servants employees in South and Central Sulawesi Province. Interactional and procedural justice are significantly influencing positive emotion with interactional justice has the largest influence in positive emotion. While distributional justice has no significant influence on positive emotion.