On the Relation among Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior from the Point of View of Department Heads of the First Region of Islamic Azad University

The purpose of this study was to examine the relation among organizational justice، organizational commitment، and organizational citizenship behavior. The current descriptive survey involved all educational department heads in the first region branches of the Islamic Azad University (n=315) in the academic year 2010-11. A total of 118 faculty members was selected through cluster sampling. Three questionnaires of Organizational justice، Organizational commitment and Organizational Citizenship behavior were used as the study instruments with the reliabilities indexes of 0. 812، 0. 825 and 0. 882، respectively. A use was of SPSS to run correlation، simple and multiple regressions، and path analyses. The findings suggested that 1. There was a significantly positive relationship among the components of organizational justice، organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior، 2. There was a significantly positive relationship among organizational justice، organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior، 3. There was a significantly positive relationship between the components of organizational citizenship behavior (friendship and respect، duty، virtue and generosity) and organizational justice، 4. There was a significantly positive relationship between the components of organizational commitment (emotional، normative، and continuous commitments) and organizational justice.