TY - JOUR T1 - Linking Political Behavior in Performance Appraisals to Distributive Justice as a Determinant of Job Satisfaction AU - Ismail, Azman AU - , Awangku Mohamad Najib AU - , Mohd Mursyid Arshad JO - International Business Management VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 109 EP - 118 PY - 2012 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2012.109.118 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2012.109.118 KW - Political behavior KW -distributive justice KW -job satisfaction KW -self-respect KW -motive KW -Nigeria AB - The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of political behavior in performance appraisals and distributive justice on job satisfaction using self-report questionnaires gathered from employees at a government linked postal company in East Malaysia, Borneo island. The outcomes of stepwise regression analysis showed two important findings; firstly, relationship between motivational motive and distributive justice significantly correlated with job satisfaction. Secondly, relationship between punishment motive and distributive justice significantly correlated with job satisfaction. Statistically, this result confirms that distributive justice does act as a mediating variable in the relationship between political behavior in performance appraisals and job satisfaction in the studied organization. ER -