IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 11 NO. 2 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijebm.vol.11.no2.2025.pg167.179

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Information, Interactional Justice and Employee Commitment in Oil and Gas Firms in South-South, Nigeria

Agari, Evi Prosper, Prof G C Mgbemena

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Abstract

The study investigated the effect of organizational justice on employee commitment in oil and gas firms in South-South, Nigeria. Informational justice and interactional justice were used as (independent variables) and employee commitment as (dependent variable). The study was anchored on affective events theory. Descriptive survey design was adopted. The study was carried out in South-South, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised 4 oil and gas firm operating in South-South, Nigeria with permanent senior and junior staff of 10,100. The study used data from primary source and was obtained through the distribution of questionnaire. Using Godden’s formula to determine the sample size of 600. The Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument by using Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Simple percentage analysis was employed to answer the research questions, the analysis results showed that informational justice and interactional justice had significant positive effect on employee commitment in oil and gas firms under study in South-south, Nigeria. the study concluded that organizational justices had a significant positive effect on employee commitment oil and gas companies in South-South, Nigeria. The study suggests that Management of oil and gas firms should allow employees to have access to information timely; this could potentially result in trust in organization. This means that organizations should offer more attractive communication strategies if they want to increase employee commitment.

Emotional Commitment, Informational Justice, Interactional Justice and Normative, Commitment

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