The Effect of Organizational Justice and Leader-Member Relation on Job Satisfaction and Nurses Turnover Intentions With Perceived Ease of Movement as Moderator

Nurses have a big role in the success of patient’s care and the survival of a hospital. The nurses’ adequacy in number and quality needs to be maintained. The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of organizational justice and leader-member relation on job satisfaction and turnover intentions. It also explains about the role of perceived ease of movement in the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intentions. This research was conducted by using a survey disbursed to its population of 391 nurses from 13 hospitals under D classification. The calculated sample were 245 nurses. It applied a sampling technique with a proportionate simple random sampling. Data was collected through list of questions and analyzed by using Structural Equation Method by applying the Amos Program. The analysis result reveals that organizational justice directly affects the turnover intentions and influences indirectly through job satisfaction. While, leader-member relation directly affects the turnover intentions and indirectly leads job satisfactions. Meanwhile, the perceived ease of movement strengthens job satisfaction in influencing the turnover intentions. The results of the study are expected to be one of considerations for hospital management to improve the nurse’s job satisfaction in an effort to reduce the nurse’s turnover intentions. Keywords—Organizational justice, Leadermember relation, Perceived ease of movement, Job satisfaction, Turnover intentions.