Relation between the organizational justice perception and work alienation of secondary school teachers

Abstract

This research has been carried to determine the relation between the organizational justice perception and work alienation of the secondary school teachers. This research is in relational screening model. Research population is composed of 1153 teachers working in 24 secondary schools in the central district of Siirt during 2014 and 2015 school year. As the research population is small, sampling was not made and 366 of the distributed scales were found eligible for analysis. Nearly 32% of the target population provided usable data. Organizational justice scale developed by Nieoff and Moorman (1993) and Price and Mueller (1986), translated into Turkish by Yildirim (2002), and which is composed of 21 items as well as the alienation scale developed by Mottaz (1981) and adapted to Turkish by Erben (2008) and which is composed of 17 items were applied in the research. As a result of this research, it was determined that there is a negative and medium level relation between the organizational justice perception and work alienation of secondary school teachers. Negative and low level of relation has been identified between the distributive justice and procedural justice dimensions of organizational justice and powerlessness dimension of the work alienation among the teachers of secondary school teachers, while there is a negative and medium level of relation between the interactional justice and powerlessness dimensions. A negative and low level of relation was determined between the distributive, procedural and interactional justice and meaninglessness and selfestrangement dimensions of organizational alienation. Moreover, it was found out that interactional justice dimension of organizational justice significantly predicts the powerlessness, meaninglessness and self-estrangement dimensions of the organizational alienation.