The Relationship between the Organizational Justice and organizational Silence in Education

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mahmood  abolghasemi ¹ (دانشیاردانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی دانشگاه شهید بهشتی)
mehdi  khairandish ² (استادیار دانشکده مدیریت دانشگاه هوایی شهید ستاری)
morteza  mahdavinik ³ (سایر)
dariush  mehri ⁴ (سایر)

Received: 2014-07-21 Accepted : 2014-09-21 Published : 2015-03-21

Keywords: Organizational Justice, Organizational silence, Acquiescent Silence, Defensive silence, metasocial silence,

Abstract :

The present study seeks to examine the correlation between organizational silence and teachers’ silence in Tabriz high schools. The method used in this study has a descriptive-correlative nature. The statistical population for this study involves all of the Zone five high school teachers in city of Tabriz, Iran, through the year 2012-2013 including 242 people, from whom 150 teachers were selected using random sampling via Morgan table. Data was collected through two standard questionnaires: (a) organizational justice (Niehoff & Moorman, 1993) and (b) organizational silence (Van Dyne et al). The validity of the question was confirmed by the experienced professors in the field of educational management, and their reliability was calculated through Cronbach alpha an .92 and .84 respectively. The results of data analysis that was done through Pearson correlation and multiple regression showed that there is a significant negative relationship between organizational justice and organizational silence. However, there were two meaningful relationships between these two variables as follows: (a) between procedural justice and acquiescent silence, and (b) between distributive justice and met asocial silence.