A model for the effect of organizational justice on negative attitudes of teachers

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationships between organizational justice perception and teachers' organizational cynicism, work alienation, and burnout levels. Scale-based relational model was used in the design of the study. The population of this study consists of teachers working in primary schools in Adana province. 284 teachers in 47 schools randomly selected from the primary schools in this population with the disproportionate cluster sampling method constitute the sample of the study. It was determined that the scales used in the study were valid and reliable. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, correlation, and structural equation modeling analyses. The existence of statistically significant relationships between the variables examined was proven with the correlation and then the measurement model. According to the structural model with the best-fit values, teachers' organizational justice perceptions negatively affect organizational cynicism and burnout levels. In addition, organizational justice perception has a negative effect on teachers' burnout levels with the partial mediation effect of organizational cynicism and work alienation. It has been seen that school principals who want to reduce teachers' organizational cynicism, work alienation, and burnout levels should be sensitive and delicate in their practices and in the processes in which these practices are implemented, to strengthen teachers' organizational justice perceptions.