Sakarya University Journal of Education (Aug 2015)
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between perceived organizational justice andlevel of organizational silence of teachers. The current study’s sample was composed 350 volunteerteacher who are working in Bandırma province of Balıkesir city. In this study, the scale for determining perceived organizational justice developed by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) and adaptedby Gürpınar (2006) and the scale for measuring organizational silence level developed by Van Dyne, Ang and Botero (2003) and adapted by Taşkıran (2011) are used. This research is done by usingrelational survey model. In the analysis of data which procured from scales SPSS 20.0 sofware were utilized. Results of the research showed that teachers distributive, procedural and interactionaljustice perceptions have negative relation with defensive silence, while having positive relationwith prosocial silence and acquiescent silence. Based on the findings, It is recommended to theschool principals to adopt a just, democratic and silence preventing management style