Effect of organizational justice over affective commitment and the role of marital status

This study aims at exploring the effect of `organizational justice´ over `affective commitment´ and the role of marital status, if any, in the relationship. A total of 207 responses from 18 organizations are collected and analyzed. The study has found that `procedural justice´ has positive effect over `affective commitment´ but `distributive justice´ doesn´t have. It has also found that marital status plays a moderating role in between `procedural justice´ and `affective commitment´, but not in between the other relationship. The study has revealed that married are concerned about `procedural justice´ but unmarried are not. In fact, unmarried are not concerned about any type of justice. This finding points to importance of procedural justice to those employees who want to maintain long-term membership with the organization. Because, at the outset of the career procedural justice may not be important to an employee as he is unmarried, but as one gets married it will emerge as important. In such a situation, if organization fails to ensure it in the organization, it may lose those employees who are really talent.