Investigation of the relation between trust in the manager and organizational justice

Abstract

The aim of this study is to show the perception of trust in the manager of teachers working at public primaryschools, secondary schools and high schools, and their perception of organizational justice, and reveal whetherthere is a correlation between the perception of trust in the manager and the perception of organizational justice.The study was carried out with 386 teachers working at public primary schools, secondary schools and highschools in Bakırköy, Bağcılar and Küçükçekmece districts of Istanbul province in the second semester of the2015-2016 academic year. “The Trust in Manager Scale” consisting of 40 expressions developed by İslamoğlu,Birsel and Börü (2007) was used in the study in order to determine the level of trust in the manager as a datacollection tool, and the “Organizational Justice Scale” consisting of 19 expressions developed by Moorman and Niehoff (1993) and translated into Turkish by Polat (2007), and the personal information form were used in orderto determine the perception of organizational justice. According to the results of the data analysis, it wasobserved that the teachers’ levels of trust in managers and organizational justice are at the “intermediate” level both in the sub-dimensions and in the total score. An “intermediate” level significant relationship was found between the teachers’ perception of trust in the manager and their organizational justice perception. Theorganizational justice perception increases as the teachers’perception of trust in their managers increases.