The Effect of Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of organizational justice on job satisfaction by considering psychological empowerment as a mediating variable. This research was conducted at Dr. Moewardi Surakarta Regional General Hospital, involving 125 respondents of Regional Public Service Agency employees. The analysis in this study used SEM-PLS with Smart PLS version 3.0. The results in this study are that organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on psychological empowerment. Meanwhile, psychological empowerment has no effect on job satisfaction and psychological empowerment does not mediate the effect of organizational justice on job satisfaction. Future research is suggested to develop research on the effect of organizational justice on job satisfaction by considering other variables in order to obtain more in-depth results.