LEVERAGING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS IN SOME SELECTED PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

Background: The recent recession has placed importance on innovation performance, reduction of costs, and retention of talent. Concurrently, the increase in turnover, negative workplace behaviours and frustration have driven an omnipresent interest in ethics and organizational justice. Organisational justice remains topical in Nigeria's educational quest for long term competitiveness. Unfortunately, most of the existing studies adopted a uni-dimensional approach to organizational justice and primarily focused on performance, ignoring its impact on retention outcome.