MODERATION ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LECTURER ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITIES IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v22.n4.3665Keywords:
Job Engagement, Organizational Commitment, Distributive Justice, Vietnam UniversityAbstract
The aim of this study was to investigate how job engagement at Vietnam University in Ho Chi Minh City mediated the relationships between recruitment and selection, rewards and compensation, job security, and organizational commitment. Furthermore, examine the moderating role that distributive justices play in the relationship between job engagement and both recruitment and selection as well as rewards and compensation. Next examined for job engagement to be impacted by psychological empowerment, selection and recruitment, rewards and compensation, job security, distributive justice, and emotional intelligence. Besides, testing the relationship between job engagement and organizational commitment. Both qualitative and quantitative research techniques were used for this research. Data was collected in early July 2025 and late September 2025 at Vietnam University in Ho Chi Minh City; PLS-SEM was used to test hypotheses of research. Finally, there accepted the hypotheses H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H8b, H8c, and H9; on the contrary, rejected the hypotheses H1, H8a, and H10. Based on the results, The authors propose five groups of solutions to enhance work engagement and organizational commitment of lecturers at Vietnamese universities.
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