A Study on the Perception of Organisational Justice of the Employees of the Ministry of Youth and Sports

Year 2025, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 374 - 383, 30.09.2025

Sief Addeen Alkafaween , Oğuzhan Yüksel

https://doi.org/10.56639/jsar.1699516

Abstract

This research was conducted under the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Türkiye. organizational justice perceptions of the personnel working in institutions in various demographic in terms of variables. The study is a quantitative research method was adopted and the survey model was used. Research The study group consisted of 385 participants working within the Ministry of Youth and Sports. constitutes. The sample was determined using the snowball technique, one of the non-probability sampling methods. The participants included different gender groups, 187 males and 198 females. In order to measure the participants' perceptions of organizational justice, the “Organiza-tional Justice Scale”, the validity and reliability study of which was conducted by Yıldırım (2002), was used. Independent sample test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test were applied to the data obtained in the study and it was analyzed whether the perception of organizational justice differs according to demographic variables. The find-ings reveal that organizational justice is affected not only by individual demographic fac-tors but also by institutional and managerial dynamics. The study provides an academic framework for a more comprehensive assessment of the impact of organizational justice in various contexts.

Keywords

employee , justice , organization , sport

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