Background: Organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior are the most
important factors affecting the employees in each organization. When there was lack of
fairness and support in the organization, staff tended to perform behaviors that damaging the
organization. Aim: The study aimed at assessing the relation between organizational justice
and workplace deviance behavior among staff nurses. Research design: A descriptive,
correlational design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at Ain Shams University
hospital. Subjects 173 staff nurses were included in the study. Tools of data collection: Data
were collected by using organizational justice questionnaire and Egyptian questionnaire of
nursing workplace deviance. Results: Slightly less than half (49.1%) of staff nurses had low
perception level toward organizational justice, slightly more than two thirds (68.2%) of staff
nurses had high workplace deviance behavior. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant
negative relation between organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior.
Recommendations: Managers have to ensure fairness in rewards distribution, making policies
with equal benefits to all stakeholders. Organizations have to implement strategies to handle
with workplace deviance behaviors.