Effects of Organizational Justice and Commitment and Islamic Work Ethics on Staffs’ Productivity in Agricultural Jihad Organization

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Socio-Economic and Agricultural Extension Research, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shiraz, Iran

2 Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran

10.22059/ijaedr.2024.345675.669157

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to investigate effects of organizational justice and commitment and Islamic work ethics on agricultural Jihad staffs’ productivity. Research population was including 285 staffs from Jihad organization that 145 staffs were selected as samples through simple random sampling. Data was collected using the standard questionnaires. Face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through a panel of experts and reliability was obtained through a pilot test and calculating the Cronbach's alpha (0.79-0.87). The findings revealed that organizational justice and commitment were moderate among staffs. Also, path analysis showed that distributive justice with total effect 0.588 and emotional commitment with total effect 0.732 had most effects on staffs’ productivity among justice organizational components. Furthermore, the variable of Islamic work ethics had a positive and significant effect on the staff’s productivity. The organizational justice and commitment components and Islamic work ethics could predict 65.7 percent of changes in staffs’ productivity. According to findings, it recommended that be done more interact with staff and used participatory management in Jihad Organization.

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Objectives

Productivity is the most important goal of the organization and it is as a philosophy and a perspective based on improvement strategy constitutes. Organizational excellence and performance are issues that play an important role in improving the quality and gaining competitive advantage of organizations (including the Jihad Agricultural Organization). Excellent organizations manage, develop and utilize all the potential of their employees at individual, team and organizational levels. They promote fairness and equity and involve employees. These organizations pay attention to their employees, communicate and encourage and appreciate them in such a way that motivation and commitment are created among them. On the other hand, when an organization hires an individual, it employs not only her unique job skills but also her ethics. Ethics is one of the most important organizational aspects due to the essential role it plays in the performance of employees and the organization. The development of ethical principles is a prerequisite for the health of the organization, because it reduces discrimination, injustice, job dissatisfaction, increases organizational morale and employee commitment, and ultimately improves the organization and society. Considering that the Agricultural Jihad Organization is one of the organizations that has received less attention in terms of human resources development and that it has not been paid attention to in terms of organizational commitment, organizational justice, and Islamic work ethics. Therefore, paying attention to these three aspects distinguishes this research from other researches. The main aim of this study was to investigate effects of justice and commitment organizational components and Islamic work ethics on improvement of agricultural Jihad staffs’ productivity.

 

Methods

The research is temporally retrospective since data were collected on present events. In terms of paradigm, it is a quantitative study, and in terms of variable control, it is non-experimental. Also, it is a causal-relational and descriptive-correlational study in terms of statistical operation in which the survey technique was used for data collection. Research population was including 285 staffs from Jihad organization in Hamedan province, Iran that 145 staffs were selected as samples through simple random sampling. Data was collected by using standard questionnaires. Face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through a panel of experts and reliability was obtained through pilot test and calculating the Cronbach's alpha (0.79-0.87). In order to measure the variables of organizational justice, organizational commitment, Islamic work ethics and employee productivity, a five-point Likert scale (1=completely disagree to 5=completely agree) was used. AMOS24 (to calculate path analysis) and SPSS26 (to calculate correlation, mean and analysis of individual characteristics) software were used in data analysis.

 

Results

The findings showed that the level of organizational justice and organizational commitment of the employees of the Agricultural Jihad Organization and its constituent components was average. Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between all the components of organizational justice, organizational commitment, Islamic work ethics and employee productivity. The findings revealed that the normative commitment (β = 0.32), emotional commitment (β = 0.43) and continuous commitment (β = 0.26) of the employees of the Jihad Agricultural Organization had a positive and significant effect on Islamic work ethics. Also, the results revealed that interactional justice (β = 0.28), distributive justice (β = 0.44) and procedural justice (β = 0.57) had a positive and significant effect on Islamic work ethics. In addition, the variable of Islamic work ethics had a positive and significant effect on the productivity of agricultural jihad employees (β = 0.55). The findings revealed that normative commitment (β = 0.32), emotional commitment (β = 0.24), continuous commitment (β = 0.16) of employees of Jihad Agriculture Organization, interactional justice (β = 0.44), distributive justice (β = 0.47) and procedural justice (β = 0.16) had a positive and significant effect on employee productivity. Furthermore, R2 was found to be 0.657 for the employee productivity of the Jihad Agricultural Organization, showing that 65.7 percent of its variance is predicted by organizational justice, organizational commitment and Islamic work ethics.

 

Discussion

It can be concluded that in the shadow of work conscience (organizational commitment), development programs are promoted. On the other hand, with the promotion of Islamic work ethics, the attitude and willingness of employees towards work has increased and they consider work as a virtue in life. Therefore, managers should try to distribute facilities and facilities, along with welfare facilities and rights and benefits, among employees in a fairer way to increase organizational justice and organizational commitment among them and develop Islamic work ethics.

 

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 55, Issue 3
October 2024
Pages 397-413

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