PERCEPTION OF ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIOUR AMONGST EMPLOYEES IN BENIN CITY, EDO STATE

This study examined the association between organizational justice and dysfunctional workplace behaviour among employees of Oredo Local Government Council in Benin City. It was done to find out if organizational justice (distributive and informational) generates  conditions that, promote higher or lesser dysfunctional workplace behaviour. The research design adopted is the survey research design using the structured questionnaire to elicit information from respondents. A sample size of 270 was determined from a population of 600 workers in Oredo Local Government Council in Edo State. The estimation technique employed was correlation and multiple regression. It was found that the two predictors were statistically significant. They all had a low P-value, which was less than 0.05. Also, we found out that, there exists an uneven distribution of outcomes, and dysfunctional workplace behaviours as a result of perceived unfairness and dishonest superiors regarding the information given to their subordinates. This work concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational justice (distributive and informational) and dysfunctional workplace behaviour among employees of Oredo Local Government Council in Benin City