The relation of social capital and organizational justice with organizational commitment based on structural equation model among female high school teachers in Isfahan in 2011-12

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship of social capital and organizational justice with organizational commitment. The population was all female high school teachers in Isfahan, that among them 358 were selected via clustered random sampling to take part in the study. The questionnaires were distributed and 300 were returned, and return rate was 83 percent. The instruments reliability was affirmed via Chronbach's alpha coefficient (for social capital was 0.79, for organizational justice was 0.90, for organizational commitment was 0.80). The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that there was a positive significant relationship between social capital and organizational commitment (p≤0.05). There was also a positive significant relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment (p≤0.05); also there was a positive and significant relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment (p≤0.05). The results from structural equation modeling showed that total social capital had a direct effect on total organizational commitment and organizational Justice. Also total organizational justice had a direct effect of 0.30 on total organizational commitment. The indirect effect of organizational Justice on organizational commitment was 0.105. The results showed that the model fitted the data. GFI was equals to 0.9, RMSEA was equals to 0.08 (p>0.05).

Keywords

• Organizational commitment
• Organizational Justice
• Social Capital