Relationships between organizational justice, job attitude similarity and leader-member exchange as perceived by staff nurses regional hospital and medical centers
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to examine the relationships between organizational justice, job attitude similarity and leader-member exchange and to determine the predictors of leader-member exchange as perceived by staff nurses working in regional hospital and medical centers. Three - hundreds and forty two professional nurses working in inpatient department were selected by stratified random sampling. Three research instruments including organizational justice scale, job attitude similarity scale, and leader-member exchange scale were content validated and tested for reliability from which the Cronbach's alpha were .91, .71, and .96, respectively. Statistical techniques used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1. The mean score of leader-member exchange as perceived professional nurses was high. (X = 131.57, S.D. = 17.32) 2. Interactional justice as positively significantly (p < .001) related to leader-member exchange (r = .817). In addition, job attitude similarity, procedure justice, and distributive justice were also positively significantly (p < .001) associated with leader-member exchange (r = .654, .647, and .348, respectively). 3. Interactional justice, job attitude similarity, and procedure justice were found to contribute significantly to the prediction of leader-member exchange. Together, these predictors accounted for 72 percent of the variance (R2 = 0.72). The equation derived from regression analysis showed as follows: Leader-member exchange = .584 Interactional justice + .238 job attitude similarity + .116 procedure justice (standardized score). The results from this study indicate the important contribution that distributive justice, procedure justice, interactional justice, and job attitude similarity would explain leader-member exchange. It can also used as guideline for administration in nursing organization