A Study of Cultural Factors Influencing Public Organizational Justice

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the perceptions of employees towards recognition of justice from cultural factors; 2) to study the perceptions of employees towards public organizational justice; 3) to study a relationship between cultural factors and public organizational justice, and 4) to study the cultural factors influencing public organizational justice. The samples used in this study were 392 employees who work in public organizations in Bangkok. The instrument used to collect data was a research questionnaire. Statistics used in this research consisted of Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation, and Multiple Regression Analysis.

The research findings showed that:

1. The perceptions of employees towards recognition of justice from cultural factors, in total, were at a high level. In particular, the family culture had the highest mean value, followed by social culture and organizational culture respectively.
2. The perceptions of employees towards public organizational justice, in total, were at a high level. In particular, informational justice had the highest mean value, followed by distributive justice and procedural justice respectively.
3. The correlation between cultural factors and public organizational justice was at 0.01 level of significance with a correlation value between 0.160 to 0.669, which the highest correlation was a relationship between organizational culture and public organizational justice.
4. The cultural factor which had the highest influence on public organizational justice was organizational culture, followed by social culture and family culture respectively.