Investigation of organizational justice perception and work satisfaction levels of information technology teachers (Malatya sample)

Today, technology and the teaching of technological knowledge is one of among the most important issues. Because the lack of technological knowledge causes many problems at the point where the new generation adapts to today's conditions. In addition, this situation affects the country's income and welfare negatively. Therefore, in order to increase the technology literacy within the education system and to make maximum use of the country's share in this sector, the students are given information technologies and software courses since the 5th grade in the middle school. At this point, the quality of the education given to the students becomes very important. The perceptions of justice and job satisfaction levels of the teachers who give the training are the factors that directly affect the quality of Education. In this study, the organizational Justice Perceptions and Job Satisfaction Levels of Information Technology Teachers are analysed and solutions are proposed to improve the current situation. The study also provides recommendations on how to increase the perception of organizational justice and what teachers can do to increase their level of work. The sample of the study consists of a total of 115 teachers working in the public schools of Malatya National Education Directorate in the 2018-2019 academic (education and training) year. "Organizational justice scale", "work satisfaction scale" were used for data collection, and "personal information form" was used to determine demographic characteristics. The obtained data were interpreted using SPSS-25 methods such as arithmetic mean, frequency, t-test, ANOVA test, LSD materiality test, Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient and Regression Analysis. As a result of the research, it was determined that the Organizational Justice perceptions of the teachers of Information Technologies were at a medium level and their job satisfaction was at a high level. These results show that there is a positive and moderately significant relationship between the level of job satisfaction and organizational justice perceptions of information technology teachers. In addition, positive increase in perception of organizational justice is seen to affect job satisfaction in a positive way.