Studying the relation between organizational justice and organizational commitment among the librarians of Khouzestan province ministry of science academic libraries

Abstract

This research is designed to study the relation between organizational justice and organizational commitment among the librarians working in the academic libraries of Khouzestan province universities of ministry of science. The statistic population includes all the managers and librarian employees working in the selected libraries in the year 2013 (160 persons), among whom 133 persons have been asked to fill the 1993 Moorman’s survey of organizational justice and 1990 Meyer’s survey of organizational commitment. This is a correlational type study, carried out with a descriptive method. To analyze the relation between the variables, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple-regression tests were used. In the end, among different factors of organizational justice, only the obtained mean of procedural justice was measured less than the average. And, the overall mean of organizational justice was measured just a little short of the average. Among different factors and elements of organizational commitment (affective, normative, continuance) the obtained results of continuance commitment is quite low. Yet, the overall mean of organizational commitment is higher than the average. There is a significant and positive relation between organizational justice and organizational commitment. Finally, among different factors of organizational justice, interactional justice can be more relied upon to assess the organizational commitment of the staff working in the studied libraries.