The Role of Job Satisfaction in Mediating the Effect of Organizational Justice on Employee Performance at the Medan High Religious Court
Keywords:
Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction, Employee Performance, Mediation, PLS-SEM.Abstract
This study aims to analyze the effect of organizational justice on employee performance with job satisfaction as a mediating variable at the Medan High Religious Court. The study uses a quantitative approach with a survey method. The study population is all employees of the Medan High Religious Court, with a sampling technique using total sampling so that the entire population is used as a research sample. Data collection was carried out through distributing questionnaires and analyzed using the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method with the help of the SmartPLS application. The results show that organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction with a coefficient value of 0.887, t-statistics of 50.844, and a p-value of 0.000. Organizational justice also has a positive and significant effect on employee performance with a coefficient value of 0.321, t-statistics of 2.294, and a p-value of 0.022. Furthermore, job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance with a coefficient value of 0.608, t-statistics of 4.461, and a p-value of 0.000. The results of the indirect effect test indicate that job satisfaction mediates the effect of organizational justice on employee performance, with a coefficient value of 0.539, a t-statistic of 4.416, and a p-value of 0.000. The R² value indicates that organizational justice explains 78.7% of job satisfaction, while organizational justice and job satisfaction together explain 81.9% of employee performance. The conclusion of this study is that organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction and employee performance. Furthermore, job satisfaction is proven to act as a mediating variable, strengthening the influence of organizational justice on employee performance at the Medan High Religious Court.
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