Researching the relationship between organizational justice perceptions and professional motivation levels of teachers, working in the primary school: Tuzla

The aim of this study is to determine there is a relationship between organizational justice perception and professional motivation levels of teachers, working in Tuzla ,district of İstanbul. Therefore it has been studied to be determined wheter there is a significantly differentiation according to the gender, age, branch, marital status, child status, number of children, professıonal service life, service life in the school, labor union affiliation, educational status variables or not. 678 teachers, working in 22 the public primary school-connected with MEB in Tuzla, dictrict of İstanbul- in 2013-2014 school year. When determining samples of the research, regions, where the schools are located in Tuzla, evaluated four different socio economic levels, hence the selection of the sample was created 4 pieces layer. Then a total of 330 surveys, being calculated the weight of layers over the cosmos and determined quantity of sample being taken from every layer by the rate generated from the number of the sample/cosmos formula, have been carried out. In the research as a tool for data collection, personal information form, organization justice scale, and teacher motivation scale are used. The datas have been gathered with Organizational Justice Scale developed by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) and adapted to Turkish by Polat (2007) and with Teacher Motivation Scale adapted to the master's study by Polat (2010). One-Way Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA), On-Parametric Kruskal Wallis H-test and İndepented Group T-test was applied for analysis. As a result of analysis, while there isn't any differentiation in sub-dimensions of organization justice and teacher motivation scales, only a significant differentiation was detected for the benefit of men according to gender variability of transactional justice. Result of the Pearson Correlation Analysis, high level position and significant relationship was found between all the variables for the teachers' perceptions of organizational justice and professional motivation level. Key words: Organizational justice, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, motivation.