Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction of social capital and organizational justice such as distributive justice and procedural justice in explaining employee engagement within higher education institution. The context of this study was the study of organizational behavior in private organization. The respondents were employees of private organizations amounting to 150 employees. The testing and data analysis used hierarchical multiple regression analyses which is SPSS. The result of regression to empirical data found that distributive justice has a positive effect on employee engagement. Likewise procedural justice positively affects employee engagement. Social capital in the model is able to explain the differences in employee attitudes and behaviors within the organizations. The results showed that social capital moderates the effects of distributive justice on employee engagement. Other result showed that social capital moderates the effect of procedural justice on employee engagement.