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Research examining organizational justice’s effects on correctional staff shows that it has significant effects on various outcomes, such as job stress, job burnout, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and life satisfaction; however, little research examines how workplace variables influence perceptions of organizational justice. Procedural and distributive justices are the two major forms of organizational justice. The current study examined the effects of instrumental communication, quality of supervision, and job autonomy on the procedural and distributive justice views of 120 staff from a correctional institution located in southeast Nigeria. Ordinary least squares regression analysis of survey data revealed that instrumental communication and quality supervision had positive effects on procedural justice views and that all three workplace variables had positive effects on distributive justice. The results suggest that if correctional administrators can increase levels of instrumental communication, improve supervision, and increase job autonomy, then organizational justice views among staff will improve.
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The questionnaire had 106 questions on various areas, including other areas than those researched in the current study. The data from the questionnaire has been used in other studies, such as exploring how workplace variables were associated with job involvement, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job stress, the correlates of life satisfaction, the correlates of job burnout, organizational justice views, and work-family conflict for Nigerian correctional staff. Full citations of past studies are available by contacting the corresponding author. None of the past studies examined how the correlates of organizational justice views of the surveyed Nigerian prison staff.
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Lanterman, J.L., Lambert, E.G., Elechi, O.O. et al. Enhancing Justice Views Among Nigerian Correctional Staff. J Police Crim Psych (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-024-09672-z
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