The Role of Leader-Follower Exchange Theory in the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Job Satisfaction in the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran

The general purpose of this research is to investigate the role of leader-follower exchange theory in the relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection -correlation type. The statistical population of the research of all the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth in 2017 is equal to 886 people. According to Cochran's table, 268 people constitute the statistical sample of this research (n=268). The data collection tools were the standard questionnaires of leader-follower exchange leadership style, Layden and Maslin (1998), organizational justice, Niehoff et al. (1993), Minnesota job satisfaction (1967). To test the hypotheses of the research, inferential statistics were used and to analyze the data based on the structural equation model, PLS Smart software, version 3, was used.

The findings showed that organizational justice has a positive and significant relationship with job satisfaction. Also, the moderating role of leader-follower exchange leadership style in increasing the relationship between organizational justice and job satisfaction was also confirmed.

The managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, by using the leader-follower exchange leadership style, can cause extra-role behaviors in employees and increase the relationship between justice and job satisfaction of employees, and as a result, increase the productivity of this ministry.