The Relationship between Organizational Climate and Organizational Justice and Mental Health of the Staff in Shahidbeheshti University of Medical Sciences

This study was conducted aiming to examine the relationship between organizational climate and organizational justice with mental health of the employees of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The population of this study comprises all employees (except the faculty members) of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences to be 350 people. The study sample consisted of 190 employees of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which is selected in random sampling method. This study is descriptive corelational. To evaluate the variables, the questionnaire of organizational justice by Neihuf and Moorman with the reliability coefficient of 0.68, and the questionnaire of organizational climate by Halpin and Craft (OCDQ) with a reliability coefficient of 0.72 and Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) with the reliability coefficient of 0.88 was used. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. The results indicate that there is a relationship between organizational justice and organizational climate, but there is no relationship between organizational climate and organizational justice with mental health. Another point is that there is a relationship between organizational justice and gender, whereas there is no relationship between organizational climate and mental health with gender of the employees. Results of regression analysis revealed that none of the variables of organizational justice and organizational climate was able to predict mental health.