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90 Police J. 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/policejl90 and id is 1 raw text is: Police Journal: Article SMTheory, Practice and Principles The Police journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 2017, Vol. 90(1) 3-23 Organisational justice's207Vo.9()33 @ The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permission: relationship with job sagepub.co.ulk/journalsPermissions.nav DO: 10. 1 177/0032258X 16662684 satisfaction and organisational journals.sagepub.com/home/pjx commitment among OSAGE Indian police Hanif Qureshi and James Frank The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA Eric G Lambert Department of Legal Studies, The University of Mississippi, MS, USA Charles Klahm and Brad Smith Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA Abstract The concept of justice plays an important role in shaping the attitudes of citizens towards criminal justice agencies. Additionally, research indicates that police officers' perceptions of justice within their own organisation can affect their attitudes towards it. Most of the research to date has focused on police officers in Western nations; however, the effects of organisational justice could be universal (i.e. cut across different police agencies and nations) or contextual (i.e. vary between cultures). The current study examined the association between perceptions of two dimensions of organisational justice, distributive (fairness in outcomes) and procedural (fairness in procedures/processes), with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police officers. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis of survey data collected from 827 officers stationed in the Sonepat and Rohtak districts in the north Indian state of Haryana indicated that perceptions of distributive justice and procedural justice (in terms of promotions and evaluations) had significant positive relationships with both job satisfaction and affective organisational commitment. The findings support the contention that perceptions of organisational justice have important effects on Indian police officers. Corresponding author: Eric G Lambert, Department of Legal Studies, The University of Mississippi, 202 Odom Hall, MS 38677, USA. Email: eglamber@olemiss.edu