Are Self‐Efficacious Individuals more Sensitive to Organizational Justice Issues? The Influence of Self‐Efficacy on the Relationship between Justice Perceptions and Turnover

AuthorOlcay Bige Yıldırım,Hakkı Okan Yeloğlu,Duysal Aşkun
Published date01 June 2018
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12161
Date01 June 2018
Are Self-Efficacious Individuals more
Sensitive to Organizational Justice Issues? The
Influence of Self-Efficacy on the Relationship
between Justice Perceptions and Turnover
1
DUYSAL AŞKUN,
1
HAKKI OKAN YELOĞLU
2
and OLCAY BIGE YILDIRIM
3
1
Department of Psychology, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey
2
Department of Technology and Knowledge Management, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
3
Department of Management and Organization, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Moderating role of self-efficacy has been studied in several research contexts which also frequently involved
organizations. According to the theoretical framework borrowed by social cognitive theory and referent
cognitions theory, we have decided to explore the moderating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between
justice perceptions and turnover intentions. Nine-hundred and four employees coming from private companies
in Istanbul and Ankara participated in our study. Our results revealed important findings in relation to the
moderating effects of different self-efficacy dimensions. Many interaction effects were as expected, except for
those high in willingness to expend effort in completing the behavior. We discussed the results in light of
certain theoretical assumptions and offered related recommendations for organizational practice and future
research.
Keywords: self-efficacy; social cognitive theory; referent cognitions theory; perceptions of justice; turnover
intentions
Introduction
In the face of rising economic, environmental, societal,
political and thusorganizational challenges,it is of critical
concern for organizations to be able to find related
survival, coping, maintenance and growth strategies. The
key to these types of strategies has strongly been stressed
to lie in an organizationshuman capital (Brockbanket al.,
2012) especially in the form of employee competencies.
Among those competencies, self-efficacy (Bandura,
1993) can be listed to hold a significant determinant
quality especially when we think about positive
workplace outcomes.
As a term coined by Albert Bandura (1977), self-
efficacy has been defined to involve an individuals
confidence about his or her capabilities for a successful
accomplishment of a specific task in a given situation
(Stajkovic and Luthans, 1998) such as any social
environment, be it an organization, an educational
institution or a sports related context. According to
Bandura (1993), the persons self influences the selection
and construction of certain environments which happens
through giving meaning and valence to them. As a very
important type of that influential process, individuals
efficacy beliefs have been related to how they thought,
felt, motivated themselves, and finally behaved.
Embedded in the social cognitive theory, self-efficacy
was taken as an individual determinant that led one to
process certain environmental agencies according to his
or her own unique personal characteristics (Stajkovic
and Luthans,1998). In organization-relatedterms, without
a belief in their personal resources to accomplish a certain
task in a given situation, the employees were predicted to
spend an effort which would be insufficient to produce
positive performance outcomes. While discussing the
relationships in the context of the triadic social cognitive
model, Stajkovic and Luthans (1998), contended that the
Correspondence: Duysal Aşkun, Department of Psychology, Istanbul
SabahattinZaim University,Istanbul, Turkey.E-mail: duysala@gmail.com
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An earlierversion of this paper waspresented at the 12th InternationalStrategic
ManagementConference, ISMC 2016, 2830 October2016, Antalya, Turkey.
European Management Review, Vol. 15, 273284, (2018)
DOI: 10.1111/emre.12161
©2017 European Academy of Management

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