RT Article
T1 The Association of Organizational Justice with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment among Nigerian Correctional Staff
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 65
IS 2/3
SP 180
OP 204
A1 Lambert, Eric G.
A2 Elechi, O. Oko
A2 Tewksbury, Richard A. 1963-
A2 Otu, Smart E.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745637850
AB Correctional staff are a necessary and valuable resource for correctional institutions, in both Western and Nonwestern nations; however, studies of correctional staff in Nonwestern nations, particularly those in Africa, are lacking. Improving the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of these staff are imperative, as both of these job attitudes have been linked to many salient beneficial outcomes. Most of the existing empirical research on correctional staff organizational justice explores only the effects of procedural and distributive justice and ignores interpersonal justice. Additionally, there has been little research on how procedural, distributive, and interpersonal justice affect correctional staff in Nonwestern correctional organizations. The current study explored the effects of all three forms of organizational justice on the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of staff at a medium security prison in southeast Nigeria. Based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, all three forms of justice had significant positive effects on commitment. Procedural and interpersonal justice had positive effects on job satisfaction, while distributive justice had nonsignificant effects. Correctional administrators need to be aware the importance of procedural, distributive, and interpersonal justice and attempt to improve perceptions of these organizational justice variables.
K1 Correctional Staff
K1 Job satisfaction
K1 Organizational Commitment
K1 Organizational Justice
K1 Prison
K1 Nigeria
DO 10.1177/0306624X20946926