The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of volunteer coaches in Malaysian schools about the relationship between organisational justice and organisational commitment. A cross-sectional correlational study using mail survey was conducted on 750 Malaysian school volunteer coaches. The subjects were selected using proportionate stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The data were analysed using structural equation modeling with AMOS. Path analysis showed that only interpersonal justice was related to affective commitment. Interpersonal justice creates a sense of belongingness and internalisation with the organisation value and norm, thus fostering higher affective commitment by willing to stay and strive for organisational goals. The results also show interpersonal justice to be negatively related with continuance commitment. This suggests that by providing fairer interpersonal treatment (i.e. interpersonal justice), the authorities would lower the volunteer coaches’ psychological engagements in continuance commitment. Distributive justice was found to be significantly related to normative commitment. Based on social exchange theory (Blau, 1964) if volunteer coaches are given opportunity through providing fair resources allocation and sports equipment, they would harness their effort to fully engage in coaching, in exchange, they would increase their normative commitment.
Allen, N. J. & Meyer, J. P. (1990). The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 63(1), pp.1-18.
Ashforth, B. E., & Mael, F. (1989). Social identity theory and the organization. Academy of Management Review, 14 (1), 20-39.
Becker, H. S. (1960). Notes on the concept of commitment. American Journal of Sociology, 66, 32-42.
Blau, P. M. (1964). Exchange and power in social life. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Blau, G. J., Paul, A., & St. John, N. (1993). On developing a general index of work commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 42, 298-314.
Busser, J. A., & Carruthers, C. (2010). Youth sport volunteer coach motivation. Managing Leisure, 15(1-2), 128-139.
Chelladurai, P. (2006). Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Cheung, M. F. Y. (2013). The mediating role of perceived organizational support in the effects of interpersonal and informational justice on organizational citizenship behaviors. Leadership & Organizational Development Journal, 34(6), 551-572.
Chuan, C. C., Yusof, A., Soon, C. C., & Abdullah, M. C. (2014). Application of theory of planned behavior to predict recreational sports activities participation of students in Malaysia. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 14(2), 172-177.
Clary, E. G., Snyder, M., Ridge, R., Copeland, J., Stukas, A., Haugen, J., & Meine, P. (1998). Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6), 1516-1530.
Cohen-Charash, Y. & Spector, P. E. (2001). The role of justice in organizations: a meta-analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86, 278–321.
Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O., & Ng, K. Y. (2001). Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 425–445.
Cuskelly, G., Taylor, T., Hoye, K., & Darcy, S. (2006). Volunteer management practices and volunteer retention: A human resource management approach. Sport Management Review, 9, 141-163.
Dawson, A., & Phillips, P. (2013). Coach career development: Who is responsible? Sport Management Review, 16, 477-487.
Demir, M. (2011). Effects of organizational justice, trust, and commitment on employees’ deviant behavior. Anatolia: An international Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 22(2), 204-221.
Dixon, M. A., & Warner, S. (2010). Employee satisfaction in sport: Development of a multi-dimensional model of coaching. Journal of Sport Management, 24, 139-168.
Eisenberger, R., Huntington, R., Hutchison, S. & Sowa, D., (1986). Perceived organizational support. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71 (3), pp.500-507.
Eisinga, R., Teelken, C., & Doorewaard, H. (2010). Assessing cross-national invariance of the three-component model of organizational commitment: A sixcountry study of European university faculty. Cross-cultural Research, 44(4), 341-373.
Engelberg, T., Skinner, J., & Zakus, D. (2014). What does commitment mean to volunteers in youth sport organizations? Sport in Society, 17(1), 52-67.
Ferry, M., Meckbach, J., & Larsson, H. (2013). School sport in Sweden: What is it, and how did it come to be? Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 16(6), 805-818, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2012.753530.
Greenberg, J. (1987). A taxonomy of organizational justice theories. Academy of Management Review, 12, 9-22.
Greenberg, J. (1990). Organizational justice: Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Journal of Management, 16, 399-432.
Hobfoll, S. E. (2002). Social and psychological resources and adaptation. Review of General Psychology, 6, 307-324.
Hofstede, G. (1980). Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work related Values. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture’s consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institu
Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s)
Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
