Impact of justice on psychological capital and job satisfaction in workers in the automotive industry

Abstract

Nowadays, organizations need to have committed, qualified and satisfied people, that is why day by day companies strive to offer fair and competitive environments in order to be successful. The objective of this investigation was to analyze whether organizational justice impacts the psychological capital and job satisfaction of employees at the operational level, who work in a company in the automotive industry on the northern border of Chihuahua. The work was of a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional and correlational type. A probabilistic sample was considered and 329 surveys were applied to workers at the operational level, which were provided in the work environment. The data collected was analyzed by estimating partial least squares [PLS]. The model was run with Smart PLS3 software. The results show that the relationships proposed are significant: justice positively and significantly affects job satisfaction and psychological capital, at the same time that psychological capital significantly influences job satisfaction.