The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels. The population of this research, designed in correlational screening model, was composed of the instructors' employed in a state university in Aegean Region, Turkey in 2015-2016 academic year and the sample was composed of 468 instructors selected via cluster sampling method. Data was collected by means of Personal Information Form, Organizational Justice Scale and Beck Hopelessness Scale. In data analysis, descriptive statistics were used in order to determine the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels; and so as to put forth the relationship between their organizational justice perceptions and hopelessness levels, Pearson Correlation coefficient was performed. Whether the instructors' organizational justice perceptions predicted their hopelessness levels was tested via Multiple Regression Analysis. According to the findings of the research, organizational justice perceptions and hopelessness levels of the instructors were at medium level. A negative significant relationship was detected between the instructors' organizational justice perceptions and their hopelessness levels. As a result of Multiple Regression Analysis, it was determined that procedural and interactional justice dimensions of organizational justice scale were not the predictors of the instructors' hopelessness, and the only predictor of the factors of hopelessness scale was distributive justice dimension of organizational justice scale. Results of the study were discussed in line with the related literature.© 2017 IOJES. All rights reserved Keywords: 1 Instructor, organizational justice, hopelessness IntroductionThe role of education and educational organizations is an undeniable fact. From primary schools to higher education, together with how education system is and how it has got to be, the qualities, roles and competencies, perceptions and psychological states of the education practitioners are equally important. Without any doubt, every phase of education is significant in itself. However, higher education is attached a particular importance as it is the last phase of education before every individual begins their professional life. Thus, the perceptions of the instructors at universities who are the providers of education is one of the chief elements to be taken into consideration so as to be able to ensure a more effective and efficient educational organization. When the point in question is organizational effectivity and the perceptions of the instructors, one of the most significant concepts that comes to mind is "organizational justice".Justice, which is accepted to be of the most indispensable phenomenon of the effectivity of an organization, is a concept dealing with distributive problems of the workers in an organization. International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017, 9 (2), 323 -339 324 "fair distribution", which probably in...

Öz. Bu araştırmanın amacı, Aydın ili Efeler ilçesi eğitim bölgesinde yer alan kamu eğitim örgütlerindeki kadın yöneticilerin kariyer süreçlerinde karşılaştıkları engelleri ortaya çıkarmaktır. Nitel araştırma geleneği içinde yorumsamacı olgubilim desenine göre planlanan araştırma, kadın yöneticilerin deneyimlerine ve bu deneyimlerin onlar için taşıdığı anlama odaklandığı için betimleyici değil, yorumsamacı olgubilim desenindedir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 22 kadın yönetici oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmanın birincil verileri yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme tekniği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Görüşmeler, alanyazın bilgisi ve önceki araştırmalardan yararlanılarak hazırlanan bir görüşme formu yardımıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın birincil verilerinin analizinde betimleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda; katılımcıların profesyonel nedenlerle yönetici olmaya karar verdikleri, kadın yöneticilerin görev yaptıkları eğitim örgütlerine önemli avantajlar kazandırabildikleri, eğitim örgütlerindeki kadın yönetici sayısının yetersizliğinde toplumsal nedenlerin öne çıktığı, katılımcıların diğer kadın yöneticilerin ve kendi yaşadıkları cam tavan engellerini değerlendirmelerinde daha çok örgütsel nitelikli cam tavan engellerine maruz kaldıkları anlaşılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarından hareketle yöneticiliğe yeni başlayan kadın yöneticilere örgüt bünyesinde deneyimli bir yönetici ve/veya öğretmenin rehberlik etmesi, kadınlar arası rekabet olgusunun nitel veya nicel araştırmalarla irdelenmesi şeklinde karar vericiler ve araştırmacılara yönelik çeşitli öneriler geliştirilmiştir.

The purpose of this research was to examine the perceptions of teachers working in public and private high schools regarding the “crabs in a bucket” phenomenon and determine the views of teachers in terms of the phenomenon. In order to achieve this aim, the research was designed with the mixed method, and an explanatory sequential design was used as the mixed method design. In accordance with the results of the research, suggestions were developed for practitioners and for researchers. The quantitative data of the study were analyzed by SPSS 22.0 and LISREL 8.80, and the qualitative data were analyzed by NVivo 11.