Abstract

The study was aimed to find out the effect of organizational justice on faculty trust in university teacher-education faculties in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The sample of the study comprised of 285 teacher-educators (lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors, professors) of twelve universities, eight in public and four in the private sector, offering at least masters degree program in Education. Stratified proportionate random sampling was used to select the sample. The instruments of data collection were adapted for the study based on Organizational Justice Scale (OJS) by Neihoff and Moorman, and Faculty Trust Scale (FTS) by Hoy and Tachannen-Moran. Two hundred thirty eight teacher-educators with a return rate of 83.5% responded. Data collected through the survey were analysed applying descriptive, correlation, and regression analysis. The results of the study showed that organizational justice on the whole and each of its dimension viz. distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice, significantly and positively predicted faculty trust. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between public and private universities with regards to the effect of organizational justice on faculty trust.