The correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction among nurses

Objectives of occupational health specialists is to increase job satisfaction of the personnel and the efficiency and the accountability of the organizations. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction of nurses at educational hospitals in Shiraz between 2014 and 2015. This study is a descriptive-correlational study, which consists of all nurses that are working at Shiraz teaching hospitals. In total, 295 nurses were included based on the inclusion criteria through Morgan table. Data was collected through demographic, Nihoof & Moormans “Organizational Justice Questionnaire” and Minnesota “Job Satisfaction Questionnaire” (MSQ). Reliability of the instruments were measured by Cronbach's alpha. Data was analyzed using SPSS/19. The average score of organizational justice and job satisfaction of nurses were 87.13±15.49 and 7.13±48.49 respectively. In addition, there was a positive correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction of nurses (p<0.001, r=0.672). Among the sub-scales of job satisfaction, only the organizational climate has a significant relation to organizational justice (p=0.049, r=0.115). Consequently, there was positive and direct correlation between organizational justice and job satisfaction of nurses. It is suggested that, nursing managers in all tasks, emphasis more on the organizational justice.