The Relationship between the Instructors’ Organizational Justice Perceptions and Their Hopelessness Levels

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The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels. The population of this research, designed in correlational screening model, was composed of the instructors' employed in a state university in Aegean Region, Turkey in 2015-2016 academic year and the sample was composed of 468 instructors selected via cluster sampling method. Data was collected by means of Personal Information Form, Organizational Justice Scale and Beck Hopelessness Scale. In data analysis, descriptive statistics were used in order to determine the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels; and so as to put forth the relationship between their organizational justice perceptions and hopelessness levels, Pearson Correlation coefficient was performed. Whether the instructors' organizational justice perceptions predicted their hopelessness levels was tested via Multiple Regression Analysis. According to the findings of the research, organizational justice perceptions and hopelessness levels of the instructors were at medium level. A negative significant relationship was detected between the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels. As a result of Multiple Regression Analysis, it was determined that procedural and interactional justice dimensions of organizational justice scale were not the predictors of the instructors' hopelessness, and the only predictor of the factors of hopelessness scale was distributive justice dimension of organizational justice scale. Results of the study were discussed in line with the related literature.© 2017 IOJES. All rights reserved Keywords: 1 Instructor, organizational justice, hopelessness IntroductionThe role of education and educational organizations is an undeniable fact. From primary schools to higher education, together with how education system is and how it has got to be, the qualities, roles and competencies, perceptions and psychological states of the education practitioners are equally important. Without any doubt, every phase of education is significant in itself. However, higher education is attached a particular importance as it is the last phase of education before every individual begins their professional life. Thus, the perceptions of the instructors at universities who are the providers of education is one of the chief elements to be taken into consideration so as to be able to ensure a more effective and efficient educational organization. When the point in question is organizational effectivity and the perceptions of the instructors, one of the most significant concepts that comes to mind is "organizational justice".Justice, which is accepted to be of the most indispensable phenomenon of the effectivity of an organization, is a concept dealing with distributive problems of the workers in an organization. International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017, 9 (2), 323 -339 324 "fair distribution", which probably in...

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“…The descriptive statistics, reliabilities, and intercorrelations for the study variables are reported in Table 1. The mean hopelessness score for the current study was 5.7 (SD = 4.9),which is significantly higher than scores previously reported [47][48][49] for teacher samples, namely Ongen: ‾ X = 4.48, SD = 4.27, t = 4.78, P < .001; Çavuş and Sarpkaya: ‾ X = 3.96, SD = 4.12, t = 6.76, P < .001; Şengül et al: ‾ X = 4.37, SD = 4.04, t = 5.20, P < .001. The following cutoff for the BHS is suggested in the literature: <3 = minimal hopelessness, 4 to 8 = mild hopelessness, 9 to 14 = moderate hopelessness, and ≥15 = severe hopelessness.…”