Effects of administrators? ethical leadership and organizational justice behavior on primary school teachers? organizational commitment level

In organizations human element is important for the productivity and effectiveness of the organization. Every organization wants to be more energetic, healthier, more productive and more adequate. When organizations face changes every organization wants to cope with these changes. As the practitioners of the organizational change, the administrators take place in the spot of the actions and operations. Each administrator commands energy, reformation, adequacy and many other features of the organization with the attitudes he effects and the factors he puts into action. Organizational attitude affects many attitudes. In organization administrator?s moral attitude, organizational justice and organizational commitment are the variables which are affected by the organizational attitude. These three concepts that affect each other are important from the point view of the organizations to realize their aims. These three concepts, ?moral leadership?, ?organizational justice? and ?organizational commitment? which are thought to effect outputs of the school in a way, are considered as important variables to fulfill the aims of the school. The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between these variables by setting perception levels of these variables.To determine the sample of this research in schools that have more than ten teachers from each district in Hatay were preferred. As a result, 9004 teachers from 635 primary schools of 12 districts comprise the population of the study. In determining the sample the size, the following Formula is used; For the sample of this research with 0,05 expressiveness level and d= ± 0,03 sample mistake by considering that the universe of study has different view and opinion that means it is heterogeneous from the point view of teachers? gender, age, seniority, branch, number of teachers in schools and the period of service the sample was calculated according to the Formula taking place below (Yazıcıoğlu and Erdogan, 2004). n=Nt²pq/d²(N-1)+t²pqIn order to distribute the number of samples to 42 schools in 12 districts layer weight was set. Nine hundred and fifty four teachers who were determined as the sample were found by being divided by the number of teachers in the population. Layer weight = 954/9004=0.1059 according to this Formula district rank density is found about 0,1059. As a result, the sample consisting of 954 people that are set by taking % 10 of the population were distributed to district rank in a balanced way. By taking the 0,10 of the number of teachers in the district ranks the sample was provided to represent the population of the study.The data of the research was added to ?ethical leadership attitude scale?, ?organizational justice perception scale? and ?organizational commitment scale?. Arithmetic average, t-test, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test, Variance Analysis, Correlation Coefficient, simple and multiple regression analysis were used in analysis of data.The results revealed that administrative ethical leadership attitude creates organizational commitment in teachers for their relationships with their schools by effecting organizational justice nature of the schools. Organizational justice is accepted as an important guide variable between administrative ethical leadership attitude and organizational commitment. At the basic of the commitment of teachers the administrators are to show their administrative ethical leadership attitude by guaranteeing organizational justice. The formation of the same application rules for everybody in schools, excelling values such as faithfulness, equality, justice, rightness, honesty, virtue, creation of school culture and climate where administrators behave in a ethical and fair way and giving place to education during service can be offered.Key words: Leadership, ethical leadership, organizational justice, organizational commitment.?İLKÖĞRETİM OKULU ÖĞRETMENLERİ