Relationships among Teachers’ Justice and Cynicism Perceptions and Political Influence Behaviours of School Principals

Abstract

Main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of teachers’ organizational justice perceptions and the political behaviours used by school principals on teachers’ organizational cynicism levels according to the opinions of primary school teachers. Sample of study, designed as a correlational study, consisted of 614 primary school teachers selected via cluster sampling method among 1948 primary school teachers. According to results, organizational cynicism levels of teachers are low. According to teachers’ opinions, the most preferred political influence behaviours of school principals is idealized effect and the least one is pressure. Results show that organizational justice perceptions of teachers are high. Lastly, results of the study indicate that organizational justice perceptions of teachers and their opinions on the idealized effect and pressure behaviours used by school principals predict about %41 of their organizational cynicism levels. While organizational justice perceptions of teachers and idealized effect behaviour used by school principals predict organizational cynicism levels of teachers negatively, pressure behaviour used by school principals predicts it positively. With the scope of these results, some suggestions were made to decrease of organizational cynicism levels of teachers and for further researches.