MODERATING EFFECT OF PERCEPTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON THE NEXUS OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND EMPLOYEE HAPPINESS: A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SRI LANKAN APPAREL EMPLOYEES

Abstract

The current study explores the nexus of organizational justice and employee happiness among Sri Lankan Apparel sector workers. This study integrates the social exchange theory into organizational justice and employee happiness research. Since happiness is a crucial drive to the entire employee outcomes, it is essential to make employees happy in the workplace as they spend much time there. Therefore, enhancing happiness in the apparel sector is quite difficult considerably. However, previous studies paid attention to justice, but no attention was paid to justice and employee happiness among the apparel sector employees with the effect of perception of organizational politics as moderator. The survey research strategy was used here, and data were collected from conveniently chosen 399 employees working in the apparel industry. Smart PLS 3.0 was utilized to analyze the data to identify the nexus of justice and happiness. The results divulged that individual with the perception of justice are more likely to have high happiness. In addition to that, the results revealed that perception of organizational politics significantly moderates the nexus of justice and happiness. The study on employee happiness pushes the boundaries of Human Resource Management literary works while also providing the congregation with sound theoretical and practical applications. Policymakers can implement more policies to reduce organizational politics and creating a better working environment. This study can be conducted longitudinally to determine the actual level of happiness over time to gain a better grasp of apparel sector workers.