The relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment: A research on academic staff

The main purpose of this research is to determined the relationship between organizational justice and commitment. Recently, organizational justice and organizational commitment have become important for organizations and are important term in the field of organizational behavior. The aim of the study is to analyze the organizational justice perceptions of academic staff working in a state university and to determine whether there is any relationship between organizational commitment and organizational commitment. Within the scope of this aim, the academic staff working in a public university were identified as 'population'. The data obtained from 300 academic staff were analyzed by using SPSS 22 and AMOS 20 programs. As a result of the analyzes, it was found that there is a significant and positive relationship between the perception of justice of the academicians and organizational commitment. It can be interpreted that there is a relationship between perception of justice and their commitment. In other word when organizational justice increases, organizational commitment will increase as well. It is determined that three types of organizational justice (distributive, procedural, interactional) have a significant and positive effect on emotional commitment. This result show that distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice increase, emotional commitment will increase as well. It is determined that three types of organizational justice have a significant and negative effect on continued commitment. This result show that distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice increase, continued commitment will decrease. It is determined that three types of organizational justice have significant and negative effect on normative commitment. Keywords: Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment , Academic Staff