The relationship between distributive justice and organizational commitment of sport organization staff in Tehran Municipality

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between distributive justice and organizational commitment of sports Organization staff in Tehran Municipality sports. Participants include 260 staff employed in administrative department sports of Tehran Municipality’s sports. The samples were selected in a purely random approach. The research materials consist of two questionnaire, “Niehoff and Moorman” organizational justice questionnaire and “Allen and Meyer” organizational commitment questionnaire that their validity and reliability were confirmed. Kolomogrove-Smearonove test, Pearson and Spearman correlation tests and one sample t- test was used to analyze the data (α=0.05). Results showed that there is a significant relationship between distributive justice (the rate of considering justice for distributing sources and rewards) and organizational commitment. Generally, results indicate that there is more relationship between distributive justice and duty commitment and less in other variables. Organizational distributive justice was at very high undesirability level and organizational commitment (duty commitment, emotional commitment and continuous commitment) variables was assessed at average desirability level in the form of emotional and duty commitment and desirability border in the form of continuous commitment. These results indicate that managers and administrators should pay more attention to justice in order to increase organizational commitment and get high desirability level.