The impact of organizational injustice events of recovery

: the role of meaningfulness as a mediator and the moderating effect of transformational leadership, transactional leadership, psychological safety climate and forgiveness climate

Abstract

Stress-inducing conditions have risen significantly in contemporary society. As such, concerns surrounding employee health, and the prevention of work-related illnesses are increasingly prominent. However, the incidence of burnout and other stress-related outcomes continues to escalate. Unfairness and organisational injustice may contribute to stressful conditions in the workplace. This study aims to identify the interplay of leadership styles, organisational climate, and work meaningfulness on employee recovery from organisational injustice events. Transformational and transactional leadership, psychological safety climate, and forgiveness climate are seen as moderators between organisational injustice and work meaningfulness. Meaningfulness of work represents the mediating variable between organisational injustice and recovery. The second part of the study examines the effect of recovery on work-related well-being variables. A two-wave online questionnaire was conducted. Following the elimination of invalid cases, a total of 180 responses were analysed. Participants completed two surveys, one week apart. The data was analysed using a moderated mediation analysis. The results showed no significant mediation nor moderation between the organisational injustice event and the recovery process of the employees. However, the correlation pattern among the study variables suggests that general organisational injustice (i.e., not pertaining to the event but rather to the general feeling employees have about their organisation) could have shown significant results. The influence of recovery on work-related well-being variables was measured by linear regression and showed significant results. Therefore, future researchers should investigate the impact of organisational injustice in general. Another suggestion for future research would be to investigate other moderators and mediators (e.g. resilience or social support) in the relationship between organisational injustice events and recovery.

Date of Award	13 Feb 2025
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Francisca Saldanha (Supervisor)