title: Moderating effects of nurses' organizational justice between organizational support and organizational citizenship behaviors for evidence-based practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lack of existing literature on the correlation among organizational justice, organizational support, and organizational citizenship behaviors has created a research gap in previous evidence-based practice (EBP) studies on nursing personnel.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether organizational justice among nurses has a moderating effect between their organizational support and organizational citizenship behaviors in order to bridge such a gap of existing literature with the EBP study on nursing personnel.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nursing staff of one large and influential hospital in Taiwan was surveyed. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed, and 386 were collected with a valid response rate of 96.50%. SPSS 17.0 and Amos 17.0 statistical software packages were used for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses' organizational support positively influences their organizational citizenship behaviors, and their organizational justice perception has a positive moderating effect between organizational support and organizational citizenship behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results call hospitals' attention to the type of individual behaviors that may improve organizational performance. When nursing staff perceive fair and impartial treatment by the organization and supportive emotional attachment, behaviors beneficial for the organization are expressed in return. Subjective perceptions of nursing staff play an important role in organizational exchange relationship; the higher the degree of nursing staff's perceived organizational justice, the higher the degree of their organizational support, perception, and exhibition of organizational citizenship behaviors such as altruistic behavior and dedication to the work.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, R.O.C. Naval Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ching-Sheng
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D012935:Social Justice; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan
keywords: moderating effect; nursing staff; organizational citizenship behaviors; organizational justice; organizational support