Organizational Psychology

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to shed light on description the current situation of organizational justice, lecturers’ work engagement and research of the effect of organizational justiceon lecturers’ work engagement and the role of gender in this relationship. Study design. The datawere collected using questionnaire form among a convenience sample of 230 lecturers workingin two universities in Hanoi, Vietnam. This study used Schaufeli’s measure of work engagement and Colquitt’s measure of organizational justice. Findings. The results indicated that organizational justicewas acknowledged as quite high and lecturers’ work engagement was fairly strong. The correlations were significant and positive among organizational justice, distributive justice, interpersonal justice andlecturers’ work engagement. Distributive justice has a stronger impact on lecturers’ work engagement than interpersonal justice. Gender is not a moderating variable in the relations among distributive justice, interpersonal justice and work engagement. Implications for research and practice are discussed in order to enhance lecturers’ work engagement through offering some solutions to enforce justice towards lectures from organization.