Title: Organisational justice and employee work engagement: LMX as mediator

Authors: Arif Hassan, Ibrahim Hizam Ali Al Jubari

Addresses: Graduate School of Management, International Islamic University Malaysia, P.O. Box 10, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ' Graduate School of Management, International Islamic University Malaysia, P.O. Box 10, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract: The paper examines the role that organisational justice plays in determining employees| work engagement and the way quality of leader-subordinate relationship (LMX) mediates this association. Data was obtained from an airline company from the Middle East. The sample consisted of 218 employees from several job levels who responded to a questionnaire measuring the study variables. Results indicated that distributive and procedural justice perception promoted quality relationship between leader and subordinate and higher quality of leader-subordinate relationship contributed to employees| work engagement. Among the three organisational justice factors, only interactional justice was related to employee work engagement. The study found a full mediation effect of LMX on interactional justice and employee work engagement.

Keywords: employee work engagement; organisational justice; leader-subordinate relationship; LMX; employee work engagement; employee involvement; airline industry; Middle East; interactional justice.

DOI: 10.1504/JIBED.2010.037000

Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 2010 Vol.5 No.2, pp.167 - 178

Published online: 20 Nov 2010 *

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