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Journal of Public Administration (JOPA)

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Organisational justice and job satisfaction among police officers within a South African environment

Author: Manisagaree Gounden Pierre A. Joubert Manilall Dhurup

Affiliation: Vaal University of Technology

Source: Journal of Public Administration, 2021-07-06 17:20:03

Accreditation: Department of Higher Education and Training(DHET)



Abstract: Organisational justice and job satisfaction among police officers within a South African environment

This article examines the influence of procedural, distributive and interactional justice on job satisfaction among members of the South African Police Academy. In spite of extant literature and the importance of employees' perceptions of organisational justice and job satisfaction in various organisations, literature is scant on the relationship between these two broad constructs within a South African policing setting. Its methodological approach is embedded in a post-positivist paradigm using a quantitative approach with a structured questionnaire (n=234). Descriptive, correlation and regression analyses were used to analyse the data. Officers' perceptions of organisational justice dimensions (procedural, distributive and interactional justice) showed strong positive correlations with job satisfaction. Regression results show that distributive and interactional justice are strong predictors of job satisfaction. The article