Perceived Procedural Justice and Its Relationship with Organizational Commitment

Employees' justice perception has a crucial impact on different behaviors of employees; like commitment, OCB, job satisfaction, turnover intention, and job stress. The objective of this study is examining the relationship between perceived procedural justice and organizational commitment. The paper follows an empirical and cross sectional research design. Data were collected from 340 permanently employed doctors and nurses who are working in a public hospital in the Amhara regional state. Simple linear regression analyses were used to analyze the survey data. Results show that employees perceived procedural justice is positively related with organizational commitment. The researcher suggests that hospital managers and health administrators should value the significance of doctors and nurses justice perception, because it would affect their behavior especially their procedural justice perception, since it is positively related with their work commitment. The nature of their work by itself demands commitment and dedication, therefore hospital administrators should strive to bring this working behavior through promoting procedural fairness within the working environment. This study demonstrates how perceived procedural justice dimension is related with organizational commitment behavior in a hospital undertaking. Doing so answers the call for more efforts to see the effects of such kind of behavioral science constructs and helps to make more progress in the area.