Distributive Justice and Employee Performance: An Assessment of their Relatedness in Deposit Money Banks in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim, Ethel Sunny Otishi and Bolaji Akeem Jimoh

In deposit money banks, distributive justice suggests that employees’ satisfaction is a function of outcomes. As such, the employees ought to access fair and/or equitable share of the resources, rewards and even punishments (where necessary) within their banks. However, this is seemingly not so owing to the distributive injustices in the Nigerian deposit money banks. To address the distributive injustices, this study assesses the relationship between distributive justice, and task and contextual performance in deposit money banks in south-south Nigeria. Cross sectional survey research design was adopted, while proportionate stratified random sampling and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select the bank employees that completed the study questionnaire. The generated data were subjected to Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis to test the study hypotheses. The results show that distributive justice is significantly and positively related to task and contextual performance. The study concludes and recommends the use of distributive justice as a strategy for improving task performance and contextual performance. Further studies should be conducted to validate this result and to add to the burgeoning literature.

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