Title: The role of job embeddedness: a moderator for justice and citizenship behaviour in the workplace

Authors: Kuo-Tai Cheng

Addresses: Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan; School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Abstract: The study draws insights from the theory of job embeddedness as a theoretical extension to explain employees' experiences of organisational justice and citizenship behaviour. Data were collected from 120 full-time employees, via a three-wave collection procedure in order to ameliorate the bias of common method variance. The analysis confirmed the moderating effect of job embeddedness on the relationship between organisational justice and organisational citizenship behaviour; that is, when the justice is deficient, people with higher job embeddedness still demonstrate citizenship behaviour. Unlike previous studies this research found that procedural justice did not contribute to citizenship behaviour, whilst distributive, interpersonal and informational justice did affect citizenship behaviour.

Keywords: job embeddedness; employees; organisational justice; organisational citizenship behaviour.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2019.099415

European Journal of International Management, 2019 Vol.13 No.3, pp.287 - 306

Received: 08 Oct 2016
Accepted: 21 Jun 2017
Published online: 02 May 2019 *

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