A research on determining the relationship between perceived organizational justice and organizational commitment

In the global and constantly changing competitive environment, the most important value of firms is the employee who is productive, open to innovations and who can adapt to changing environmnet. So that, the commitment of the employee to his/her organization is becoming more important. Because the employee, whose commitment is the high level, can adopt to goals and values of organization, goes into voluntary efforts and provides a lower employee turnover. Knowing that there are lots of factors affecting employees commitment, in this dissertation, the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational justice, which is assumed the primary influence on the issue is studied. The aim of this study is spesifing the relationship between commitment, justice and dimension of employees. In this direction, the study is devided into three parts. At the first part, the notions related to the organizational justice are examined and the theories developed about the organizational justice is studied in theorical perspective with the distributional, prosedural and interactional sub-dimensions of the justice. In the second part, organizational commitment is examined as the same way via including the theories about the commitment with the emotional, continueing and normative commitment as the sub- dimensions. At the last part, after given literature of relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment, the research finding of textile industry that located at Hatay Organized İndustrial Zone are examined. Although, there are lots of study on this field at literature, in the textile industry there is no study applied previously. Because of this reason, applying a study in textile industry on this field is decided. Key Words: Justice, Commitment, Organization, Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment