In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Scientific Association of Sports Management of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Assistant Professor of sport management, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of justice on organizational commitment with the mediating role of organizational voice among staff of Sport and Youth administration of Ardabil province. The study method was descriptive and correlational (SEM). The participants of this research comprised all the employees of Sport and Youth administration of Ardabil province and 160 samples were selected using random sampling. Niehoff and Murman Organizational justice questionnaire (1993), Allen and Mayer organizational commitment questionnaire (1999) and Zuhir and Erdogan organizational voice questionnaire (2011) were used to collect the information. SPSS and descriptive method (mean, standard deviation (and inferntial methods (Pearson correlation coefficient, KMO and Bartlett test) and LISREL software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the direct effect of organizational justic and organizational voice on organizational commitment is significant. In addition, the organizational justic indirectly affects organizational commitment through organizational voic. Therefore, it can be concluded that the organizational justic and organizational voice may be taken into account as one of the important factors leading organizational commitment.

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