ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE, ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND NURSE QUALITY OF WORK-LIFE (QWL) IN PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FACILITY IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

As a significant predictor of the quality of work-life, organisational justice describes the degree to which a corporate organisation keeps to norms showcasing fairness and due diligence in its decision-making process. This study explores the relationship between organisational justice and nurses’ quality of work-life and investigates the mediating role of ethical leadership between organisational justice and quality of work-life among nurses in public healthcare facilities. The study investigates four dimensions (distributive, procedural, interactional and informational justice) of organisational justice on ethical leadership behaviour. The study used a cross-sectional design to administer the research instrument to the participants. It surveyed 297 nurses from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) on a simple random basis. The study utilised both simple linear and multiple regression analysis to investigate the data from the nurses. Also, it used PROCESS Macro Hayes to analyse the mediating impact of ethical leadership between organisational justice and quality of work-life. The findings of the study discovered that procedural justice, distributive justice and interactional justice are related to ethical leadership in the public healthcare facility. The outcome of the study indicated a combined relationship between the dimensions of organisational justice in relationship with quality of work-life of nurses. It also demonstrated a direct and full mediating impact of ethical leadership between the constructs of organisational justice and quality of worklife.  The study concluded that the perception of organisational justice by the healthcare workforce is the beginning of improved work performance and better quality of work-life in public healthcare organisations