Relationship between Hospital Nurses’ Perception of Organizational Justice and Organizational Commitment

Perception of organizational justice has been related to numerous other organizationalfactors, including organizational commitment. Yet, less is known about mechanisms linkingorganizational justice to organizational commitment. Objective: Investigate the relationshipbetween nurses perception of organizational justice and commitment to their organization,and whether differences in nurses perception in relation to organizational justice andorganizational commitment are different between two hospitals. Settings: Two health careorganizations (Damanhour National Medical Institute and Kafr-El Dawar General Hospital)in ELBehera governorate. Subjects: All nurses who were available and willing to participatein the study during the time of data collection in the two hospitals (N=317). Of these, 280completed and returned the questionnaires. Tools: Two tools were used; OrganizationalJustice Scale and Organizational Commitment Scale. Results: Regression model indicatesthat nurses perception of distributive justice and procedural justice were positivelyassociated with nurses affective commitment and normative commitment. Only interactionaljustice was significantly associated with affective commitment. There were significantdifferences between nurses perception of the overall organizational justice (Z=2.1, p= .033)and overall organizational commitment (Z=2.4, p=.018) between studied hospitals.Conclusion: The study indicates the importance of both interactional and procedural justicefor nurses commitment. Recommendations: Future studies need to better define the specificcomponents of distributive justice and means to enhance them in order to strengthenorganizational commitment among nurses.