Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Department of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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The purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationships between justice perceptions, employee's misbehavior and cynicism to organization because very few studies have looked at the role of justice and cynicism in the prediction of employee's misbehavior in public organizations. According to the purpose of study, the present research is developmental research. Also according to way of data collection (research project), the present study are descriptive research. In classification based on the type of research, this study is correlational research. In the current research, the population under analysis consists of a public organization. Participants were 420 employees and all of them were administrative employee. The results of the present research revealed that justice perceptions will be negatively associated with employee's misbehavior; negatively predicted employee's cynicism and finally the relationship between organizational justice and misbehavior will be mediated by employee's cynicism. The present results both support previous research and extend our perception in relation with the mechanisms through which justice influences on employee's misbehavior.
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