Modeling the relationship between organizational justice, job burnout and organizational commitment among university teachers.

Abstract

Organizational commitment is widely considered in the management and behavioral science literature as a key factor in the relationship between organizations and individuals (Mirza, Redzuan, Hamsan, & Shahrimin, 2012). According to Meyer and Allen (1991), organizational commitment comprises three types of commitment: affective, continuance and normative commitment.As a consequence, organizational commitment has been found to be predicted by quite a few of organizational variables. Of all the influencing factors,organizational justice and job burnout are two important ones (Meyer & Allen,1997). Organizational justice has long been considered an explanatory variable in organizational research (Adams, 1965; Leventhal, 1976). It reflects the degree to which individuals believe the outcomes they receive and the ways they are treated within organizations are fair, equitable, and in line with expected moral and ethical standards (Cropanzano, Bowen, & Gilliland, 2007). In the extant literature, justice has been conceptualized based on four dimensions: distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice and informational justice (Colquitt, 2001).Many studies indicated that organizational commitment, in part, was shaped by perceptions of fair treatment by managers and organizations (Cohen-Charash & Spector; 2001; Ponnu & Chuah, 2010). From overall perspective, for example, Tallman et al. (2009) demonstrated that employees who believed that they were treated fairly would be more likely to hold positive attitudes toward the organization, and be more committed to the organization. From dimensional perspective, for example, Cohen-Charash and Spector (2001) found that both distributive and procedural justice was positively related with affective commitment...