Employee performance is always the direct factor that would affect the performance of a company. Hence, managing people effectively is crucial to ensure organization’s success. In line with this view, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational justice perception and job satisfaction in small and medium enterprises in Johor manufacturing sector and to identify the type of organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) perception which influences the most on job satisfaction. The data were collected from a sample of 60 non-managerial employees whom are working in the manufacturing sector in SME’s in Johor. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 26.0 and Partial Least Squares (PLS- SEM) with SmartPLS version 3 was used to analyze the data collected. Findings from the study revealed that only distributive justice has a significant relationship with job satisfaction whereas procedural and interactional justice does not have a significant relationship with job satisfaction. This study also indicated that distributive justice contributes the most on job satisfaction of employees working in the manufacturing sector in SME’s.

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