An Investigation of the Relationship between Organizational Justice, Job Autonomy, Workplace Trust and Psychological Ownership: The Role of Ethical Leadership

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of “organizational justice, job autonomy, organizational trust, and ethical leadership” on psychological ownership. It also examines the moderating role of ethical leadership on psychological ownership. The study used a survey method to obtain the data from the respondents of the banking sector. Our results support six direct and one moderating relationship. The study suggests that organizational, distributive, interpersonal, and informal justice do not affect psychological ownership. At the same time, we found that job autonomy, workplace trust, trust in co-workers, trust in organizations, trust in immediate manager, and ethical leadership affects psychological ownership. The study also found that ethical leadership moderates organizational justice and psychological ownership. But psychological ownership does not moderate (1) job autonomy and psychological leadership and (2) workplace trust and psychological ownership.

Keywords

• organizational justice
• job autonomy
• workplace trust
• ethical leadership style