Role of Organizational Justice in Psychological Empowerment of Employees in Sport and Youth Offices in Ilam Province

The aim of the present work was to study the role of organizational justice in the psychological empowerment of employees in the Sport and Youth offices in the Ilam Province.
The research method was of a correlative-descriptive type. All employees of the Ilam Sport and Youth offices (N = 175) with a sample population of 120 people were selected as the statistical sample based on the Morgan sampling table. In this work, the Neihoff & Moorman’s (1993) organizational justice questionnaire consisting of 20 items in three sub-scales and the Spreitzer’s (1995) psychological empowerment questionnaire consisting of 22 items in five sub-scales were applied. The structural equation modeling and Pearson's correlation coefficient methods with the Lisrel and SPSS softwares, respectively, were used to analyze the data.
The results obtained for the path analysis show that the organizational justice (t = 3.93) and it’s interactional (t = 3.89) and procedural (t = 3.79) dimensions have significant effects on the psychological empowerment of employees but the distributional justice has no significant effect on the employees’ psychological empowerment. Overall, the organizational justice was estimated to be about 30% of employees’ psychological empowerment variances.
With a proper recognition of the effect of the organizational justice dimensions on the psychological empowerment, the managers can do proper measures to develop the sense of justice in organizations. According to the findings of this work, it can be concluded that the strategies that develop interactional and procedural justice can lead to the psychological empowerment of the employees of the Sport and Youth offices.