Les cahiers du CREAD
Volume 24, Numéro 86, Pages 10-81
2008-12-05

The Interrelationships Of Organizational Loyalty, Organizational Justice, And Group Cohesiveness Of Public Sector Employees' In Kuwait

Authors : Qasem Ahmed Al Qarioti Mohamed . Suleiman Freih Hamed .

Abstract

The main objective of this survey research is to examine the interrelationships of procedural justice, organizational justice cohesiveness, personal characteristics and organizational loyalty. The study reports responses of (470) government employees from four government organizations from various sectors in the State of Kuwait. Four hypotheses were tested and validated by the data. Results show that procedural justice have a low positive significant relationship with organizational loyalty (r=.097) at a (0.05) significance level, in comparison with distributive justice which has a moderate significant positive relationship (r=.225) at a (0.01) level with organizational loyalty, and group cohesiveness which have a moderate significant positive association (r=.203) at a (0.01) significance level with organizational loyalty. But with regard to the relationship of personal characteristics and organizational loyalty, the data provided only partial support. The study results show that agency and age affect organizational loyalty in a positive way, as regression coefficients were (.181), (.174) at (.001) and (.020) significance levels respectively, while job and experience affect organizational loyalty in a negative way (.136), (.220) at (.004) significance levels respectively. But data shows no effect of rank, education, gender, and nationality on organizational loyalty. The limitations of common method bias and cross sectional data are discussed in light of implications for future research.

Keywords

Organizational loyalty, procedural justice, distributive justice, group cohesiveness, Kuwait