Keywords
work engagement
organizational citizenship behaviors
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Abstract
Many studies have been conducted about the relationship of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors. However, there still are questions regarding the psychological processes that explain the. This study tests the mediating role of work engagement as a psychological process that explains the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors. A sample of 144 employees from multiple occupational industries (service, sales, among others) in Puerto Rico participated in this study. The results from structural equation with Partial Least Squares support our hypothesis: work engagement completely mediates the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors. When employees are treated in a fair way, work engagement is fostered, which in turn, predicts organizational citizenship behaviorsThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.