School Principalُs Commitment to Productivity, the Effects of Job Autonomy, Psychological Empowerment and Distributive Justice

Subject Areas : Business Management

Reza Sepehrvand ¹ , Masoud Godsi ^{2 *} , Saeyd Farah bakhsh ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Lorestan University, Management Department, Lorestan-Iran
2 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Management, Lorestan University, Lorestan-Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Lorestan University, Department of Educational Management, Lorestan-Iran

Received: 2013-07-25 Accepted : 2014-01-25 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: psychological empowerment, Distributive Justice, Commitment to productivity, Job autonomy,

Abstract :

This paper aims to investigate the effects of job autonomy, psychological empowerment and distributive justice on commitment to productivity of principals in Lorestan state schools.  The Statistical population comprises current and former principals. Using random method, 357 out of them were selected. For measuring the research variables, we used 3 different questionnaires. For measuring commitment to productivity, job autonomy, psychological empowerment and distributive justice, a researcher-made, Breaugh (1985), Thomas & Velthouse (1990) and Price & Muller (1986) questionnaires were used, respectively. All of the questions in the questionnaires have 5-point Liker-scale.  For analyzing data, covariance-based structural equations modeling-path analysis and AMOS software were applied. The results show that all of job autonomy, psychological empowerment and distributive justice have positive and direct effects on commitment to productivity of principals in Lorestan state. Also, among all of the dependent variables, distributive justice has the highest effect on psychological empowerment. Furthermore, among all the dependent variables, distributive justice has the lowest effect on commitment to productivity