the association of perceived organizational justice and organizational expectations with nurses’ efforts

background: one important factor in growth, progress, and increase in work efficiency of employees of any enterprise is to make considerable effort. supreme leader of the islamic republic of iran also addressed the issue of need for more efforts. the goal of this study was to determine the association of perceived organizational justice and organizational expectations with efforts of nurses to provide a suitable model. materials and methods: the current study was a descriptive study. the study group consists of all nurses who worked in hospitals of isfahan. due to some limitations all nurses of the special unit, surgery wards and operating room were questioned. the data collection tools were the organizational justice questionnaire, organizational expectations questionnaire, and double effort questionnaire. content validity of the mentioned questionnaires was confirmed after considering the experts’ comments. the reliability of these questionnaires, using the cronbach’s alpha, were 0.79, 0.83 and 0.92, respectively. the pearson correlation and the structural equation model were used for the analysis of data. findings: there was a significant correlation between the perceived organizational justice and the double effort of nurses during the surgery of patients. correlation of the expectation from job, usefulness of job, and its attractiveness with double effort of nurses before the surgery was also statistically significant. moreover, it was shown that the root of the mean square error of estimation (rmsea) was 0.087, the fitted goodness index (gfi) was 0.953, the value of chi-square was 268.5, and the model was statistically significant (p < 0.001). conclusions: today justice is an essential need for human life and its importance in organizations and social life of individuals is evident.