Perceived Organizational Justice as Mediator in the Association of Leader Spiritual Intelligence and Subordinate Work Attitude in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examined perception of organizational justice in a mediating context of associated relationship between spiritual intelligence and subordinate work attitude in Nigeria. Using questionnaire as sole research instrument, data were obtained from a sample of 384 employees of the Rivers State Civil Service; whereas a total of 318 were retrieved, only 307 copies were deemed valid for analysis. Bar chart was used to illustrate the dispensation of the demographic data distribution while the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypotheses earlier stated. The result reveal that: (1) Leader existential thinking (2) Leader personal meaning production (3) Leader transcendental awareness (4) and Leader conscious state expansion are significantly associated with the components of subordinate work attitude. More so, the bootstrapping test reveals that organizational justice does not significantly mediate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The study concluded that spiritually intelligent Leaders possess the potentials to implicitly and explicitly shape the values and mindset of their subordinates; and consequently place such subordinate in the pedestal of exhibiting positive and desirable behaviors that are relevant in the achievement of organizational goals. Some recommendation put forward are that :(1) Leaders should deliberately apply their spiritual intelligence in every dealings and contacts with subordinates in the organizations (2) Leaders should regularly examine their spiritual intelligence quotients using the Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale (ISIS) and where the result is low; efforts should be made towards improvements.