Effect of Compensation Structure and Distributive Justice on Employees' Job Satisfaction in Higher Educational Institutions in Gombe State

The main purpose of the study is to examine the effect of Compensation Structure and Distributive Justice on Employee Job Satisfaction. Two research hypotheses were formulated from literature to capture the essence of this study. The research was conducted among teaching and non-teaching staff from two of the Gombe State owned Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs)that is; Gombe State Polytechnic, Bajoga and College of Education, Billiri. Convenient sampling technic was used to reach out to the 250 respondents, derived out of the entire 673 staff of the two institutions based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling size table of 1970. Data was collected through the use of adapted structured questionnaire. The toolsused for analyzing the descriptive statistics and reliability was the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23, while the SEM was aided by Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) software, version 23. The study is influenced by the theoretical framework of Equity theory. Findings from the study indicated that, Distributive justiceand Compensation structure were reported to have significant and negative relation with job satisfaction. These results suggest that Government should pay much emphasis to the compensation structure which has to do with their remuneration, allowances and to the larger extent, the welfareof the institutions’ employees. The management of the institutions should be open and fair in duty offerings, equitable chances in carrier development which has to do with seminars, conferences, workshops and more so furtherance of education (higher degrees). In addition, there should be appropriate rules and regulations in order to have fairness of decision making.