Perception of organizational justice has been related to numerous other organizational
factors, including organizational commitment. Yet, less is known about mechanisms linking
organizational justice to organizational commitment. Objective: Investigate the relationship
between nurses' perception of organizational justice and commitment to their organization,
and whether differences in nurses' perception in relation to organizational justice and
organizational commitment are different between two hospitals. Settings: Two health care
organizations (Damanhour National Medical Institute and Kafr-El Dawar General Hospital)
in ELBehera governorate. Subjects: All nurses who were available and willing to participate
in the study during the time of data collection in the two hospitals (N=317). Of these, 280
completed and returned the questionnaires. Tools: Two tools were used; Organizational
Justice Scale and Organizational Commitment Scale. Results: Regression model indicates
that nurses' perception of distributive justice and procedural justice were positively
associated with nurses' affective commitment and normative commitment. Only interactional
justice was significantly associated with affective commitment. There were significant
differences between nurses' perception of the overall organizational justice (Z=2.1, p= .033)
and overall organizational commitment (Z=2.4, p=.018) between studied hospitals.
Conclusion: The study indicates the importance of both interactional and procedural justice
for nurses' commitment. Recommendations: Future studies need to better define the specific
components of distributive justice and means to enhance them in order to strengthen
organizational commitment among nurses.