Impact of Perceived Organizational Justice on Organizational Commitment of a Food and Beverage Firm in Nigeria
AKANBI, PAUL AYOBAMI; OFOEGBU, ONYEMA.EUGENE;

Abstract
This research examined the role of organizational justice on organizational commitment in Nestle Nigeria PLC Agbara, Lagos State Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to ascertain the significant difference between procedural justice and perceived organizational commitment, and also to examine the significant relationship between distributive justice and perceived organizational commitment. In addition, the study ascertained the main and interaction effect of distributive justice and procedural justice on organizational commitment. The study employed survey research using questionnaire to collect data from all categories of workers in the multi-national manufacturing company. Two hundred and fifteen employees of the company responded to the questionnaire. Four hypotheses were tested with t-test, correlation analysis and analysis of variance.The study indicated that organizational justice as measured by procedural justice and distributive justice can have a significant impact on the organizational commitment of multi-national company. The findings from the study also showed that there was a significant relationship between distributive justice and perceived organizational commitment. Based on the findings from this study, it is recommended that organizations should embrace justice in all ramifications of their practices with the employees to bring about committed employees.

Full Text: PDF