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The Influence of Organizational Justice on Employees' Motivation to Participate in Training: A Quality System Perspective on Human Resource Practices  

Kang, Dae-Seok (College of Business Administration, Inha University)
Kim, Youn-Sung (College of Business Administration, Inha University)
Lee, Dong-Won (College of Business Administration, Inha University)
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International Journal of Quality Innovation / v.7, no.1, 2006 , pp. 1-19 More about this Journal
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This study sought to examine the effect of three (distributive, procedural, and interactional) justice perceptions in predicting employees' motivation to participate in training activities. On the basis of theoretical linkages between the constructs, full mediation and partial mediation models by perceived benefits of training were developed. The models were tested using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) on responses from 302 employees of three wireless operators in the Republic of Korea. The results showed the partial-mediation model is a dominant model. It also confirmed that interactional justice directly influence motivation to participate in training, whereas procedural justice influence the variable through perceived benefits of training. Furthermore, limitations and implications of the current study and directions for future work are discussed.
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