Relationship between Hospital Nurses’ Perception of Organizational Justice and Organizational Commitment | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 18, Issue 1, July 2016, Pages 161-172 PDF (341.02 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2016.208631 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ebtehal Omar1; Azza Hassan Mohamed2; Rehab Gamel Hussein2 | ||
| 1Directorate of Health Affairs, El Behera Governorate | ||
| 2Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Perception of organizational justice has been related to numerous other organizational factors, including organizational commitment. Yet, less is known about mechanisms linking organizational justice to organizational commitment. Objective: Investigate the relationship between nurses' perception of organizational justice and commitment to their organization, and whether differences in nurses' perception in relation to organizational justice and organizational commitment are different between two hospitals. Settings: Two health care organizations (Damanhour National Medical Institute and Kafr-El Dawar General Hospital) in ELBehera governorate. Subjects: All nurses who were available and willing to participate in the study during the time of data collection in the two hospitals (N=317). Of these, 280 completed and returned the questionnaires. Tools: Two tools were used; Organizational Justice Scale and Organizational Commitment Scale. Results: Regression model indicates that nurses' perception of distributive justice and procedural justice were positively associated with nurses' affective commitment and normative commitment. Only interactional justice was significantly associated with affective commitment. There were significant differences 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 justice for nurses' commitment. Recommendations: Future studies need to better define the specific components of distributive justice and means to enhance them in order to strengthen organizational commitment among nurses. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Organizational justice; Organizational commitment; Equation modeling | ||
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