Exploratory factor analysis of technological justice as a New Generation of Organizational Justice A study from Higher Education Body in Oman

This study proposes a technological dimension of organizational justice and empirically investigates how this dimension takes form in a model of justice. This research study was conducted in Oman’s higher education sector, and the data were collected from nine universities and higher institutes of learning. Participants represent a range of academic ranks (including lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors), and they have different teaching experiences; they come from a wide range of cultures, and their ages widely differ. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) of data from 416 survey respondents was used to test the organizational justice’s dimensionality. Alpha of Cronbach was used to check intended scale’s reliability. The results reveal an interpretable and distinct factor of what the authors call “technological justice”. The study outcomes provide a better understanding of how employees perceive the fairness of using technological tools and its sustainability. This study can help organizations investigate the extent to which employees perceive their workplace to be technologically just. It can also help such organizations reconsider their procedures and policies securing better justice in this domain. The current scholastic endeavor focuses on an area of research, which has not received much attention when compared to that of research on other dimensions of organizational justice. This new domain would add some insights into the literature of organizational justice and enhance the knowledge of the dimensionality of justice.