Studying the Relation between School Culture and Organizational Justice In Ardabil High Schools

This paper studied the relation between school culture and organizational justice in high schools of Ardebil city. Research method is correlational. Statistical population consisted of 582 teachers and 17500 students of second and third grade of high schools of Ardebil city. 230 teachers and 376 students were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table and via multistage random sampling. Data was gathered by school culture questionnaire by Hegins (1997), et al for students and organizational justice questionnaire by Nihov and Mormon (1993) for teachers. Face validity of the questionnaires was approved by experts and reliability coefficient of them was calculated by Cronbach’s Alpha and was 0.92 and 0.90 respectively. Data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods (significance test, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions). Results from Pearson correlational coefficient significance test revealed that the relation between school culture and organizational justice was positive and significant. Moreover, regression results showed that the variables of normative expectations, school relationships, student relationships and student opportunities are significantly predicting organizational justice; i.e. school culture is a significant predictor of organizational justice.