The Effect of Leadership-Follower Exchange Quality and Organizational Justice on Organizational Health

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Prof. Management Department, Parand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Parand, Iran

2 MSc. Business Management, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This research is aimed at investigating the effect of leader-follower exchange and organizational justice on organizational health. It is also concerned with the mediating role of organizational commitment and quality of work life, and the moderating role of educational degree. This applied research follows a descriptive-survey method. The statistical population contains 100 employees of a knowledge-based company in the field of PMC and MC industrial project management and engineering of industrial and petroleum equipment. The sample consists of 78 people selected by simple random sampling. Statistical analysis is performed by electronic questionnaires and SPSS22 and SMART PLS 3 software. The results indicated that the quality of leader-follower exchange significantly affected organizational health mediated by organizational commitment. The high slope lines in the regression graph demonstrates that organizational justice does not directly or indirectly affect organizational health of people with higher education; however, it does have a significant effect on the quality of work life mediated by organizational commitment in people with lower education. The slopes of the regression lines also show that the effect of quality of work life on organizational health is weaker in those with higher education and stronger in those with lower education.

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 11, Issue 3 - Serial Number 37
December 2019
Pages 93-123

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  • Receive Date: 12 January 2019
  • Revise Date: 01 July 2019
  • Accept Date: 14 April 2019

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