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The Role of Organizational Justice in Developing Psychological Ownership of Workers

Dr. Khaled Mahdi Saleh, Dr. Majeed Hameed Taher, Dr. Hala Sahib Abdul Sattar

Volume: 12 Issue: 4 2022

Abstract:

The research aims to demonstrate the role of organizational justice as an independent variable in influencing the achievement of development of the sense of psychological ownership of workers as a dependent variable. The current research variables were distinguished as being effective variables in terms of the field and affecting the achievement of success for organizations. In order to achieve this goal, it was applied on a sample of employees in the Iraqi Ministry of Transport employees, whose number reached (84) individuals, and the data were collected through the questionnaire as a main tool, to come out with a set of conclusions that contribute to raising the levels of the researched company, and based on the importance of the research topic in government organizations, and the role the most prominent figure in which can contribute to activating the public sector, the descriptive and analytical approach was adopted in the completion of this research, and a number of statistical methods were used to process the data, including: arithmetic mean, standard deviation, simple linear correlation coefficient (Pearson) and simple linear regression. As for the most prominent conclusions, they have represented: there is an effective and essential effect of organizational justice in influencing on the psychological ownership of workers

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i04.055

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