Abstract:

Purpose of the research is to examine the relationship between primary school teachers' perceptions of organizational justice and their perceptions of organizational silence and organizational trust. The universe of the research consists of 2028 teachers working in 46 official primary schools in Küçükçekmece district of Istanbul province in the 2019-2020 academic year. Considering the size of the district and the difficulty of reaching 2028 teachers, sampling was done. The sample of the study consists of 408 teachers working in Küçükçekmece district and who are determined by the "simple random sampling" method . While collecting data, “Organizational Justice Scale” developed by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) and adapted to Turkish by Polat (2007), “Organizational Trust Scale” developed by Yılmaz (2006) and “Organizational Silence Scale” developed by Kahveci and Demirtaş (2013) are used. The data has been resolved with arithmetic mean, t test, one way variance analysis (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis using SPSS statistics program. According to the findings of the research, it was concluded that, the perceptions of teachers about organizational justice are “high” ; perception levels of organizational trust are “high” ; their perceptions about organizational silence are at the “medium” level. In the study, it was concluded that there was a positive “medium” level between teachers' perceptions of organizational justice and their perceptions of organizational trust, and a negative “medium” level with their perceptions of organizational justice and organizational silence. Also, it was concluded that there was a negative “medium” relationship between teachers' perceptions of organizational trust and organizational silences.

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