Relation between School Managers and Teachers Downward and Upward Influence Tactics and Organizational Justice
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In this study, it was aimed to determine how the secondary school administrators and teachers influence each other and their perceptions of the types of organizational justice. It was also tested whether the types of organizational justice predict the organizational influence strategies or not. The data were collected from 284 school administrators and 854 teachers. According to the results of the study, while teachers highly use friendliness, bargaining and assertiveness tactics to influence their managers, they use higher authority and coalition tactics at a moderate level. The teachers use reasoning tactics the least. On the other hand, school administrators use friendliness, bargaining and coalition tactics highly, higher authority and sanction tactics at a moderate level and reasoning tactics the least. The results also showed that from among the types of organizational justice, the distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice predict the organizational influence strategies of the teachers and the school administrators to the greatest extent.
