Organizational Justice and Organizational Commitment among Faculty Staff and their Assistants

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University

2 Lecturer of Nursing Administration

3 B.Sc. In Nursing

Abstract

Background: Nowadays, human resources is the most important input for all of the organizations.
From this aspect, the justice within the organization and the organizational commitment are
undoubtedly the most important elements in using the human factor efficiently. Aim of the study:
This study aimed at identifying the relationship between organizational justice and organizational
commitment of faculty staff members and their assistants in (Beni-sueif and El-fayoum)faculties of
nursing design: a descriptive correlational study design was utilized. Subjects the study was
conducted on 196 faculty staff members and their assistants setting: the study was carried out at
Beni-sueif and El-fayoum faculties of nursing. Tools: two tools were used to collect data. First
tool: self-administered questionnaire sheet which was consisting of two main parts. Part:
sociodemographic data sheet and part: organizational justice questionnaire sheet. Second tool:
organizational commitment questionnaire sheet. Results: the study revealed that, faculty staff
members and assistants had low organizational justice and commitment with relatively high
percentages of high organizational justice and commitment among faculty staff members than
assistants; 42.6%with high organizational commitment of faculty staff members in front of 29.2% of
assistants, regarding organizational justice. percentage of faculty staff members with high
organizational justice was 40.4% while among assistants it was 24.8% , the dimensions of
organizational commitment ranged as following: continuance commitment are the highest then
normative then affective commitment is the least and the highest percentage of organizational
justice dimensions was interactional justice and the lowest was distributive justice. Conclusion:
there were statistical significant positive correlation between organizational justice dimensions and
organizational commitment dimensions: r=.635. Recommendations: conduct training courses for
the faculty administrators on the importance of organizational justice perception on organizational
commitment.
 

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