FACTORS INFLUENCING ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE OF PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THAILAND

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study a relationship between cultural factors, religious ethics, good governance and organizational justice of public agencies in Thailand. This research is a quantitative study. The research questionnaire was used as a tool to collect the data. Populations and samples used in this study were 400 respondents who were employees of public agencies located in four regions of Thailand. The research results showed that cultural factors, religious ethics and good governance are positively related to organizational justice. Good governance had the highest influence on organizational justice, followed by religious ethics and cultural factors respectively. Recommendations from the study are that the government should support the learning and teaching on justice in order to cultivate the culture of justice from family level to social level and organizational level. Organizations should encourage employees to implement the religious ethics to create the justice in the organization and overall society. Therefore, each organization should have good organizational culture and occupational ethics to improve the concept of justice and equity in the organization and society. Both public and private organizations should set up the policy to encourage their personnel to follow the religious ethics because it can create love, compassion, mercy, and generosity among people in the organization, which can bring unity and harmony to the people in organizations.

Keywords: cultural factors, religious ethics, good governance, organizational justice.