title: Organizational identification moderates the impact of organizational justice on job satisfaction.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few studies concern the moderator effect of organizational identification between organizational justice and job satisfaction.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to examine the trilateral relationship among organizational identification, organizational justice and job satisfaction, especially focus on the moderator effect of organizational identification.
  
  
  METHODS
  354 staffs completed the measures of organizational justice, organizational identification and job satisfaction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Hierarchical regression analysis showed that organizational identification moderated the association between organizational justice and job satisfaction. When staffs reported a low level of organizational identification, those with high organizational justice reported higher scores in job satisfaction than those with low organizational justice. However, the impact of organizational justice on job satisfaction was not significant in high organizational identification group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Organizational identification can significantly moderate the impact of organizational justice on job satisfaction. The significance and limitations of the results are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.|School of Social Work, Chongqing City Management College, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Guo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Chongqing City Management College, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Libin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: School of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Occupational happiness; Occupational mental health; hierarchical regression analysis; moderating effect