The Effect of Organizational Justice Perceptions on Burnout

Abstract

Organizational justice, expressed as the perception of how people are treated equally, affects the organizational outcomes such as employee loyalty to the organization, job satisfaction, and the level of burnout in their work. Employees who believe that the distribution of gains is fair (distributive justice), that the distribution processes are fair (procedural justice), and that the fair interaction during the distribution process (interactional justice) will be peaceful and happy;thus, they experience less burnout syndrome. In this study, the effect of organizational justice (procedural, distributive, interactional justice) that the nurses perceive in the hospital where they work is investigated. It was concluded in this study that as the perception of organizational justice increased, burnout syndrome decreased. As a result of the analysis conducted on the sub-dimensions of organizational justice and burnout, it has been observed that it had a statistically negative effect on the emotional exhaustion dimension of the procedural, distributive, interactional justice and on the depersonalization dimension of distributive justice as well.