Organizational justice and functional alienation: a comparative study at Beni Suef University

Author

Sociology teacher at Beni Suef University

Abstract

 
     The study aims at identifying the relationship between  Organizational justice along with its different dimensions: distributive justice, procedural and interactional justice in terms of Job alienation along with its different dimensions: powerlessness, meaninglessness, lack of norms, social isolation and self-estrangement among staff members including their assistants and employees at Beni-Suef University.
 
     The study relies on a social survey and a comparative approach of a sample of seventy nine staff member including their assistants besides thirty five employees. Furthermore, the present study adopts a measure for both organizational justice and job alienation.
 
     The study results affirm a high degree of organizational justice among staff members and their assistants and a moderate level for employees. Distributional justice occupies the first degree after  the procedural justice at the second degree after interactional justice at the last degree for both staff members and their assistants.
      For job alienation measure, a moderate degree for  both  staff members including their assistants appeared after isolation in the first degree for staff members, assistants and employees. Finally, the results present a statistically important inverse relationship between Organizational justice and job alienation.