Analysis of Organizational Justice Perception According to Some Demographic Variables: A Comparative Study on Public and Private Sector Employees

Abstract

In this study, an analysis was made to determine whether there is a difference in perceptions of justice of public and private sector employees according to some demographic variables. The analysis conducted to determine whether there is a relationship between the perceptions of justice and demographic variables of the public and private sector employees were examined according to the
demographic variables and whether or not there was a differentiation between the perceptions of organizational justice. As of March 2018, 3.129 million employees, out of 28.591 million public and private sector employees in total, are employed in the public sector in Turkey, while remaining 25.462 million are employed in the private sector. About 400 thousand of these employees are employed in Ankara. The sample was chosen because of the difficulty of reaching the entire universe. The sample of the study consists of 390 public and private sector employees working in Ankara. The data obtained for the purpose of the study were collected through a questionnaire designed for this purpose. The questionnaire contains personal information about the personnel and questions about the perception of organizational justice. As a result of the study, it was found that there is a difference; in the perception of operational justice according to the gender of the employees; in the perception of interactional justice according to the marital status, in the interactional and general organizational justice perception according to the managerial status variable, and the differences in the perceptions of distributive, interactional and general organizational justice according to the sector.