Faculty members' perceptions of organizational justice in Institutes of Higher Learning of Pakistan

Abstract

The current study attempted to determine whether or not demographic groups of faculty in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) differ significantly in their perceptions regarding organizational justice and its three dimensions. Since relationship of organizational justice with teachers’ demographic characteristics has rarely been investigated up till now in academic organizations of higher learning so, the findings of this study helped bridging the gap in organizational justice literature particularly in collectivistic culture of South Asian country like Pakistan.Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to collect data from regular and contractual teaching staff serving in four private and one public HEIs of Pakistan. Analysis of variance and independent samples t-test were employed to address research question of the study. All the demographic groups expect of gender and academic qualification differed significantly in their perceptions regarding either organizational justice or its dimension(s). Key words: Organizational justice, distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, demographic groups, faculty, higher education institutions (HEIs), Pakistan.