Resilience and Job Satisfaction: Effect of Moderated Mediation on the Influence of interpersonal Justice on the Performance of Public Servants

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 8;20(4):2957. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20042957.

Abstract

The perception of interpersonal justice is one of the key resources for improving employees' performance intention. Elements such as employees' level of satisfaction or their self-perception of their ability to cope with problematic situations are key factors in this relationship according to the job demands-resources model. The objective of this study was to analyze how the perception of job satisfaction and the self-perception of resilience influence how interpersonal justice affects employee performance. A total of 315 public sector employees, who perform administrative and customer service tasks, have contributed to this study. The results show that the relationship between interpersonal justice and intra-role performance is completely mediated by job satisfaction; however, when we include the modulating effect of resilience between interpersonal justice and job satisfaction, the influence of the former is reduced as the self-perception of resilience. This indicates that the positive effects of justice are reduced as workers' self-perception of resilience increases.

Keywords: interpersonal justice; intra-role performance; job demands-resources model; job satisfaction; resilience.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Job Satisfaction*
  • Self Concept
  • Social Justice*

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.