Organizational Justice and Job Satisfaction: Causality or Correlation? 

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction in employees of the petroleum industry in México. The research is quantitative, ex post facto confirmatory, transversal over time, with explanatory scope, through SEM data analysis. The sample consists in 251 workers in a maintenance area. Key variables were measured with the Organizational Justice scale (Niehoff and Moorman, 1993) adapted to Mexican population by Patlán-Pérez, Flores, Martínez and Hernández (2014). Also, there was used the official short version in Spanish of the Satisfaction Questionnaire of Minessota (Weiss, Dawis, England & Lofquist, 1967). As result, it was found a reciprocal causal relationship between the constructs organizational justice and job satisfaction, also between distributive justice and organizational justice, between procedural justice and organizational justice, between interactional justice and organizational justice. It was obtained also a correlation between the dimensions of organizational justice and the dimensions of job satisfaction.

Key words: organizational justice; job satisfaction; intrinsic satisfaction; extrinsic satisfaction; causality; correlation

JEL codes: M12, M52, M54