The relationship between manager leadership behavior and organizational pessimistic considering the mediating role of organizational justice in education

This study aime to examine the mediating role of organizational justice in the relation of manager leadership behavior to organizational pessimistic in education and training staff. This research was a descriptive study of correlational type focusing on structural equation modeling In this stydy, the statistical population consisted of all male and female education and training staff of B.on city in Charmahal Bakhtiyari province that a sample of 300 teachers (140 women and 160 men) was selected by random sampling method. Participants completed the Leadership Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire, the Standard Pessimistic Organizational Inventory (SPOI), and the Organizational Justice Questionnaire . The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling . The results showed that there was a significant negative correlations between manager leadership behavior and its components including supportive leadership and authoritative leadership with organizational pessimism . The manager leadership behavior and its components were positively associated with organizational justice. Organizational justice and its components including distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice had significant negative relationships with organizational pessimism . All three components of organizational justice mediated the relationship between manager leadership behavior and its component including supportive leadership with organizational pessimism. Organizational justice components, except for interactional justice, mediated the relation of authoritative leadership to organizational pessimism . On the whole, it can be concluded that the manager leadership behavior including supportive leadership and authoritative leadership can lead to reduction in organizational pessimism through organizational justice in in education and training staff.