EFFECTS OF ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND JOB STRESSORS ONEMPLOYEE HEALTH: A MULTILEVEL MEDIATION APPROACH

Abstract

Research to date, has found that organisational justice enhances different kinds of work outcomes in an organisation. However, while most studies have investigated the effect of organisational justice on employees’ outcomes via several mediational pathways, a lack of studies is evident on how organisational justice influences employee health via two different kinds of job stressors, namely challenge and hindrance stressors. Drawing from the notion that working conditions are created by upper-level management, the current study tested the influence of organisational justice via challenge and hindrance stressors. Using a cross-sectional multilevel design, 129 individuals from 25 manufacturing companies from Peninsular Malaysia were involved in the study. Results from a Hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) analysis indicated that all three, the procedural, distributive and interactional sub-dimensions of organisational justice had a positive relationship with challenge stressors but were not related to hindrance stressors. Interestingly, while hindrance stressors are commonly known to have detrimental effects on employee health, the study’s results indicated that these relationships were positive. The study provides evidence that good management practices, mainly via organisational justice, not only boost employees’ interpretation of job stressors as positive, but also improves their health.