Organizational Justice: A Cross-national comparative study of Ghanaian industrial workers and their Finnish counterparts

The increased globalization in organizations has created the
challenge to investigate and understand the organizational behaviours of
employees from different cultural backgrounds. The current study
investigated organizational justice from a cross-national perspective.
Participants were Ghanaian (N = 320) and Finnish (N = 520) industrial
workers. Data was collected with Blader and Tyler's (2003) scale. The
Ghanaian participants responded to the English version, and the Finnish
participants, a Finnish version. The analyses investigated differences on the
three justice components (distributive, procedural and interactional). Further
analyses examined which of the three best predicts job satisfaction, the
relationships between demographic variables and justice perceptions. T-test,
correlations, and regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses.
Contrary to our expectations, Ghanaian respondents evaluated higher
distributive and procedural justice. As predicted, they indicated more
sensitivity to interactional justice than their Finnish counterparts. Significant
links between all three justice components and job satisfaction were
recorded in both samples. Interactional justice indicated the strongest
influence. Demographic variables showed more impact on justice
perceptions among Ghanaian workers than their Finnish counterparts. The
study's theoretical and practical implications are discussed.