The Relationships between Supervisor's Procedural Justice, Subordinates’ Trust and Organization-Based Self-Esteem

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the relationships between supervisor's procedural justice and subordinates' affective and cognitive trusts in the supervisor, and their organization-based self-esteem. The sample is consisted of 648 employees of three religious and guidance organizations in Iran. The sampling method is the random sampling. The data are collected by using four well-established instruments of organization-based self-esteem, affective trust, cognitive trust, and procedural justice. The statistical analysis was the structural equation modeling. The results of the analysis indicated that: (1) Supervisor's procedural justice has a significant and positive relationship with subordinates' cognitive (β=.95, p.05). The findings of this study suggest that although fair treatment of supervisors develops their subordinates' affective and cognitive trusts, but only the affective trust of subordinates in their supervisors has a positive impact on their organization-based self-esteem. As a result, it behooves the supervisors to treat their subordinates fairly in order to improve their cognitive and affective trust through using supervision and leadership techniques to enhance their organization-based self-esteem.