The Effects of Organizational Justice on Counterproductive Work Behavior among Social Workers: Mediating Effects of Affective Organizational Commitment and Moderated Mediation Effects of Self-Efficacy

Key Points

• This research examines how perceived organizational justice affects counterproductive work behavior in social workers, focusing on the roles of affective organizational commitment and self-efficacy.
• 478 social workers from various types of social welfare organizations in Gyeonggi Province were surveyed using purposive sampling.
• Confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis were conducted using AMOS 26.0.
• Bootstrapping (5,000 times, 95% bias-corrected confidence interval) was employed to test the mediating and moderated mediation effects.
• Distributive justice and procedural justice significantly positively impacted affective organizational commitment, with procedural justice having a stronger effect.
• Affective organizational commitment negatively influenced counterproductive work behavior and partially mediated the relationship between the two justice dimensions and counterproductive work behavior.
• Self-efficacy moderated the relationship between affective organizational commitment and counterproductive work behavior, showing a stronger suppressive effect in high self-efficacy groups.