Abstract:
Organizational justice refers to employee perceptions of fairness in the workplace.
It has four main dimensions: distributive (perceptions regarding the fairness of employment
outcomes), procedural (perceptions of processes that lead to these outcomes), interpersonal
(perceptions of interpersonal interactions and treatment), and informational (the accounts
provided for justice-related events in the workplace). Affective commitment is the acceptance of
the organization as their and believes its values and goals. The objective of the study was
to investigate the effects of organizational justice perceptions on the affective commitment of
employees in the bank industry in Ethiopia evidence from Banks at Woldia town. The data are
gathered using from 201 employee respondents and of those 193 are completed questionnaires in
12 different banks use as starta. The collected data are presented using descriptive statistics that
were mean perceptions and crosstab of the respondents. The presented data are analyzed and
interpreted using inferential statistics such as independent samples test, pearson correlation, and
multiple linear regression model that established the relationship between the independent and
dependent variables. The results of the study showed that the components of organizational justice
(distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational) have a significant and positive
relationship with affective commitment in the bank sector in Ethiopia. And the composite
organizational justice has significant relationship with the employees’ affective commitment. In
addition to these, the customer service positioned employees and government bank employees have
more affective commitment than others. Finally, the researcher recommended that managers in
each bank give attention for fairness during distributing (resources, duties, outcomes,…), decision
making processes and procedures, communication with employees,and explanations of the
outcomes.