Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of sport sciences, Faculty of Huamanity, Arak University, Arak

2 Physical education office, Arak university, Arak, Iran.

3 Markazi province Education organization, Shazand, Iran.

4 Department of sport management, Faculty of sport sciences, Arak university, Arak, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and job engagement with organizational performance of sport coaches. This is a descriptive-correlational study that was conducted through a survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all active sport coaches in Arak sport boards (704 coaches) which 254 of them were selected as samples by stratified random sampling. The research data were collected through questionnaires of organizational justice by Niehoff and Moorman (1993), job engagement by Salanova and Schaufeli (2001) and organizational performance by Hersey and Goldsmith (1980). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and one sample t test and regression tests in SPSS version 22. The results showed that there were relationship between organizational justice and job engagement (r= 0.16), between job engagement and organizational performance (r= 0.13) and between organizational justice and organizational performance (r= 0.58) of sport coaches of sport boards in Arak (P (05/0≥. But, only organizational justice could predict the organizational performance. In the other hand, organizational justice can improve organizational performance. Hence, it is suggested that the responsible officials should pay more attention to organizational justice, so that increases the organizational performance of sport coaches.

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