The Moderating Role of Gender in the Relationship among Organizational Justice, Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors of Secondary School Teacher

Abstract

This study intends to search the structural relations among organizationaljustice, job satisfaction, supervisor support, organizational commitment,and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) of a sample of 500secondary school teachers (SSTs) of district Sargodha using a surveyresearch design. The analyses revealed that all demographic variableshad insignificant effects on most of the organizational citizenshipbehaviors of SSTs while only gender had significant effects as amoderator variable. Regression analysis revealed affective commitmentand operational justice were significantly correlated to all dimensions ofcitizenship behaviors, whereas only sportsmanship behavior of teacherswas related to normative commitment and interactional justice. Teachers’compliance behavior and civic virtue were correlated with continuancecommitment. Gender turned out to be a significant moderator betweenthe relationships of the pairs of variables such as; continuancecommitment and civic virtue, affective commitment and compliance,interactional justice and helping, operational justice and civic virtue, jobsatisfaction and sportsmanship, continuance commitment andsportsmanship.