Extent of Public High Schools Principals' Practice for Organizational Justice in Their Schools from Teachers' Perspective in Alkarak Governorate 2018

Hind Khaled Domour ,Lena Mohammd Bsharat ,Noah Jadallah

doi:10.7176/jep/10-2-02

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the extent of public high schools principals' practice for organizational justice in their schools from teachers' perspective in Alkarak governorate. The sample of the study included ( 309 ) male and female teachers which was randomly selected from the population of the study that consisted of ( 2754 ) male and female teachers. To achieve the goals of the study, the researcher developed a 28-items questionnaire for organizational justice practice and was checked for reliability and consistency. Results indicated that the extent of public high schools principals' practice for organizational justice in their schools in Alkarak governorate from teachers' perspective was medium and there were significant statistical differences at the level α≤ 0.05 based on the variable of gender and these differences were in favor of females. Results also indicated significant statistical differences at the level α≤ 0.05 based on the variable of experience in favor of those with experience of 5 to less than 10 years experience and finally, the results indicated significant statistical differences at the level α≤ 0.05 based on the variable of the educational qualification in favor of bachelor degree. The study recommended for high public schools principals in Alkarak governorate to practice more organizational justice with teachers and to be interested with experienced teachers with higher educational qualifications. Keywords: Organizational Justice , Public High Schools , School Principals . DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-2-02

Highlights

The great scientific advancement the 21st century witnesses in the various life aspects – including the educational field – impose the need for establishing a totally different educational system from the existed ones
The success of any organization depends on achieving its goals and the quality of the human resource performance, and the performance of individuals is greatly related to the justice practiced upon them from superiors for its great role within work environment as it was indicated that subordinates realization for organizational justice positively affects several organizational outputs such as workers' attitudes that include job satisfaction, intentions to leave work and organizational commitment in addition to affecting workers' behaviors such as organizational citizenship and absence from work ( John, 1999 )
The Study Population The population of the study consisted of all public high schools' male and female teachers in Alkarak governorate whom were 2754 teachers ( 1451 female and 1303 male teachers ) based on the statics of the Jordanian Ministry of Education for the school academic year ( 2016\2017 ) in seven directorates of education on Alkarak

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Introduction

The great scientific advancement the 21st century witnesses in the various life aspects – including the educational field – impose the need for establishing a totally different educational system from the existed ones. The success of any organization depends on achieving its goals and the quality of the human resource performance, and the performance of individuals is greatly related to the justice practiced upon them from superiors for its great role within work environment as it was indicated that subordinates realization for organizational justice positively affects several organizational outputs such as workers' attitudes that include job satisfaction , intentions to leave work and organizational commitment in addition to affecting workers' behaviors such as organizational citizenship and absence from work ( John, 1999 ). The 3rd type includes the personal treatment with workers ( interactive justice ) which means the extent of workers feeling of the justice of treatment they receive when procedures are applied , interactive justice indicates the way the administration acts toward individuals which is basically related to administrators' way of treating subordinates ( Lee, 2000 )

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