The Impact of Organizational Justice on Motivation to Submit Suggestion: Studying the Mediating Role of the Valence of Suggestion System

Nowadays, organizations in turbulent environment are experiencing external challenges and changes more than ever before and in order to adapt and react to these changes, new styles of management is necessary. Participative management as a new approach in management through suggestion system can help organizations to exploit the creative potential and intellectual capital of employees. This study aims to investigate the mediating role of "Valence of Suggestion System" in relationship between three dimension of "Organizational Justice" and "Motivation to Submit Suggestion". The importance of studying suggestion system has been admitted and investigated in many researches. Therefore, this study aims to improve participation in suggestion system considering distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice and valence of suggestion system variables. Statistical population of this research consists of employees of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique was employed to test hypotheses. Findings showed that valence of suggestion system mediates effect of distributive justice and interactional justice on motivation to submit suggestion partially and also mediates effect of procedural justice on motivation to submit suggestion fully.