Background and Objective: Organizational justice can be defined as study of equality at work. Citizenship behavior is useful and valuable which people do it voluntarily. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in educational Hospitals of Ahvaz jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. 

Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional. Research population included employees of educational hospitals affiliated Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. The sample sizes included 147 cases collected randomly. Data was collected using two questionnaires: Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation as well as Pearson's correlation, ANOVA and independent t-tests.

Results: Among organizational justice components procedural and interactional justice showed the highest and lowest scores, respectively. Among organizational citizenship behavior subscales' estimations, consciousness was the highest and social customs was the lowest scores. There was a significant correlation between total organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior(p=0.04). Furthermore, there was a significant relationship between interactional justice and social customs, chivalry, and consciousness(p&le.0.01)

Conclusion: Interactional justice component was estimated relatively poor. It seems that in educational hospitals, the managers should create the tendency to show the work consciousness among staff. In addition they can institutionalize appropriate behavior with other employees among them, using some related workshops.

Key words: Organizational Justice, Citizenship Behavior, Employees, Hospital

Funding: This research was not funded by Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz

Conflict of interest: None declared

Ethical approval: The Ethics Committee of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz approved the study.

How to cite this article:.Faraji Khiavi F, Bahrami F, Sharifi S. The Correlation between Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Educational Hospitals of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences: A Short Report. J RafsanjanUniv Med Sci 2015 14(9): 795-802. [Farsi]