Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Faculty Member of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz Iran

2 faculty member of shahid chamran university of ahvaz, ahavaz iran

3 Shahid chamran university of ahvaz

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perception of organizational justice on job satisfaction and social health of secondary school teachers in Behbahan. The descriptive and correlational research of method was used. Dependent variables include job satisfaction and social health and Independent variable was organizational justice. The population of the present research was all full time secondary school teachers who were working in in Behbahan. (360) during the session 2020-2021. The sample consisted of 130 teachers selected through stratified random sampling from the mentioned population. The instruments used in this study are organizational justice developed by Neihoff and Moorman (1993), A standard job satisfaction questionnaire (Fernand and Awamleh, 2006), was used to assess the level of job satisfaction among teachers and social well-being questionnaire made by Keyes (1998) These instruments were tested and adapted in a pilot study before they were used in the main study. The reliability of all the instruments has been documented separately for the sample. The results of Pearson correlation showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between organizational justice and satisfaction (r = 0.380, p <0.01), and a positive and significant relationship between perceptions of organizational justice and social health (r= 0.490, p <0.01). The regression results showed that the components of perception of organizational justice explained about 15% of changes in job satisfaction and about 25% of changes in social health. Conclusion The study showed that perception of organizational justice of managers improves job satisfaction and social health.

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