Organizational Justice and Workplace Deviance Behavior: Psychological Capital as
Abstract
The present study was conducted to identify the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between three dimensions of an organization's justice, namely distributive justice, procedures justice and interactional justice with workplace deviance behavior among employees of multimedia organizations in Malaysia. Data collection was done through personally administered questionnaires from 350 employees. The statistical analysis, namely Correlation analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were executed. Results found negative and significant relationship between distributive justice, procedures justice and interactional justice and workplace deviance behavior, a positive relationship between distributive justice, procedures justice and interactional justice and psychological capital, and negative impact of psychological capital towards workplace deviance behavior. Finally, psychological capital partially mediated the relationship between distributive justice, interactional justice and workplace deviance behavior, and psychological capital fully mediated the relationship between procedures justice and workplace deviance behavior. The study makes a significant and unique contribution to literature by showing the mediation effect of psychological capital in the relationship between distributive justice, procedures justice, interactional justice and workplace deviance behavior. Present study's demonstrated that the employees’ perception of organizational justice, can enhance the employee's psychological capital, which in turn mitigate workplace deviance behavior.