SCALE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE IN MANAGEMENT PROCESSES: A VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY
YÖNETİM SÜREÇLERİNDE ÖRGÜTSEL ADALET ÖLÇEĞİ: GEÇERLİK VE GÜVENİRLİK ÇALIŞMASI

Author : Bertan AKYOL -- R. Cengiz AKÇAY
Number of pages : 147-164

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make the validity and reliability analysis of the scale of Organizational Justice in Management Processes. Following this aim, the literatures on both management processes and organizational justice have been primarily searched. After this step, three dimensions of organizational justice, distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice have been deeply analyzed. In order to specify the significant place of organizational justice on management processes and write the literature part of the study, the relation between each of the management processes and the dimensions of organizational justice has been studied in depth analysis. Item pool has been prepared from the literature obtained and it has been broached to 9 educational sciences and 2 Turkish Language experts to be viewed. After the review of the experts, some of the items have been eliminated and some of them have been rewritten, which has revealed the scale with 63 items. The participants of the study have been expected to give answers for items given in the scale ranging as “Totally Agree, Disagree, No Idea, Agree and Totally Agree”. The pilot application of the study has been carried out in one of the state universities in Marmara Region, Turkey. The questionnaires have been distributed to 350 instructors and 308 of questionnaires have been collected back. Factor analysis has been done to determine the structure validity. After the factor analysis, it has been found out that the scale includes 6 factors. Considering the management processes, these factors have been named as Decision Making, Planning, Organization, Coordination, Motivation and Evaluation. The reliability of the scale has been analyzed through Cronbach Alpha Value and the scale has been found as reliable. It shows that the scale can be applied to determine the perceptions of instructor working in higher education institutions on justice of management processes.

Keywords

University, Management Processes, Organizational Justice

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