RT Article
T1 Perceived Procedural Justice Enhances Correctional Officers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Correlational and Causal Evidence From Israel
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 49
IS 2
SP 164
OP 180
A1 Nelson, Noa
A2 Appel, Orit
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1784454079
AB Procedural justice refers to unbiased, caring, respectful, and participative treatment by decision makers. It positively associates with employees’ citizenship behavior, an expression of motivation and commitment that consists of voluntary helpful acts toward the organization or fellow employees. In view of scarce research on these variables in correctional facilities, we conducted two studies among Israeli correctional officers. In a survey (N = 336), procedural justice by the commander moderately associated with organization- and individual-targeted citizenship behavior. In addition, commander procedural justice predicted perceiving organization procedural justice, which in turn strongly associated with organization-targeted citizenship. In an experiment (N = 311), commander procedural justice enhanced organization- but not individual-targeted citizenship behavior. These studies provide new statistical and causal evidence for procedural justice effects on correctional officers, which can inform prison administrations’ practices. They also generalize justice effects to the Israeli prison culture and provide knowledge on Israeli officers, hitherto notably understudied.
K1 Social Exchange Theory
K1 Security organizations
K1 Correctional Officers
K1 Organizational Citizenship Behavior
K1 Procedural Justice
DO 10.1177/00938548211043557