Investigating the Relationship Between Perceptions of Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Teachers of Abadeh

4 Abstract: The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. The population under study was all teachers teaching in Abadeh (913) in 2010. Using statistical random sampling based on the size of statistical community, 131 teachers (41 from primary schools, 36 from secondary schools and 54 teachers teaching in high schools) were selected as our sample. The study had a descriptive correlational design and the required data were collected through using the validated form of organizational justice questionnaire (Niehoff and Moorman) containing 21 questions and validated form of organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire (Podsakoff and MacKenzie)containing 24 questions. The faceandcontentvalidityofthe questionnairesas well as its reliability were estimatedusingCronbach's alphacoefficientto be (0.88) fororganizational justice and (0.89) fororganizational citizenship behavior. The obtained data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient, stepwise regression, path analysis and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Results showed that there is a significant relationship between perceptions of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior and dimensions of organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactive) and organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, procedural justice had been the best predictor of organizational citizenship behavior. The results of stepwise regression showed that the best predictor of organizational citizenship behavior in the dimension of civic virtue and conscientiousness had been interactive justice and in the dimension of sportsmanship, it had been procedural justice. Moreover, the results obtained through MANOVA showed that there is no significant difference between components of justice based on sex, education, academic level and working experiment but the difference between civic virtue components based on sex, education and conscientiousness based on academic level is significant.