Relationship between Instructors’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Organizational Justice Perceptions [doi: 10.14527/kuey.2014.017]

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the relationship between perceptions of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) and to analyze the organizational justice perceptions and OCBs of instructors with respect to some demographic variables. The sample of this descriptive study consisted of 154 instructors working in a university in Izmir, Turkey. The data were collected using organizational justice scale designed by Colquitt (2001), and OCB scale by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman and Fetter (1990). Responses were statistically analyzed using t-Test, one way ANOVA, Scheffe multiple comparison and Pearson correlation test. According to the analyses, demographic variables were not found to be related to the perceptions of organizational justice. However, it was found that there is a significant difference in the OCB in terms of gender and seniority. Most importantly, the results indicated a significant relationship between the participants’ perceptions of organizational justice and their OCB. It can be concluded that instructors who experience fair treatment are likely to reciprocate it with more OCB.