Group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour, interactional justice, and group identification among lecturers in three higher learning institutions

Abstract

This research examines the relationships among group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour, interactional justice, and group identification in three Malaysian public universities. A total of 174 university lecturers (Males = 85; Females = 89) from the International Islamic University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA, and Universiti Malaya were recruited as participants using purposive sampling. Using paper-based questionnaires completed at their workplace, the participants answered questions from four established scales that measured group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour, interactional justice (i.e., interpersonal and informational), and group identification. Results of regression analysis show that there is: (1) a moderate and significant positive relationship between interpersonal justice and group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour; (2) a moderate and significant positive correlation between informational justice and group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour; (3) a weak but significant positive relationship between interpersonal justice and group identification; (4) a moderate and significant positive correlation between informational justice and group identification; and (5) a small but significant positive relationship between group identification and group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour. However, the mediation analysis using Baron and Kenny’s (1986) three-procedure approach and Preacher and Hayes’s (2004) bootstrapping techniques showed that although interactional justice directly predicted group-directed organisational citizenship behaviour, this relationship, however, was not mediated by group identification. The implications of these findings are discussed, and recommendations for future research are provided.