MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE PERCEPTIONS IN THE LINK BETWEEN SERVANT LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR AND TEACHER’S JOB SATISFACTION WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF BALOCHISTAN.
Keywords:
Organizational Justice, Leadership Behavior, Job Satisfaction, Higher Education, BalochistanAbstract
The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of distributive and interactional justice perception as part of organizational justice perceptions in between servant leadership behavior and teacher’s job satisfaction. The subjects for this study consisted of a convenient sample of 396 teachers from Universities of Balochistan, Pakistan. Results indicate that distributive and interactional justice significantly mediated the relationship between servant leadership and job satisfaction. Thus, one way via which servant leadership is related to job satisfaction is through its positive effects on organizational justice perceptions.
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