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Felt Justice. Correlations Between University Students and University Personnel

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Humans typically have a need to be heard and recognized. This need is often felt as a need of fair treatment of people, especially in relationships between leaders and followers. Former research has shown a correlation of felt justice between students and staff. This means that in the situations where school staff members feel fairness and justice from their leadership, students also feel same from the staff. Typically, people feel to be treated well, just when they believe that their leaders or teachers hear their views and opinions. This research was done by utilizing two different questionnaire tools, one for staff and one for students. Data was gathered in 2019 and 2020 in annual organizational surveys. The overall research question is: Is there a correlation between felt justice of staff and students’ satisfaction? This article shows the correlations and discusses the results of these correlations. Future research aspects and practical recommendations will also be issued in the paper.

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    Tero Reunanen & Vesa Taatila

  2. University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Tero Reunanen

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  2. Institute of Maritime Operations, University of South-Eastern Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  3. Häme University of Applied Sciences, Hämeenlinna, Finland

    Vesa Salminen

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Reunanen, T., Taatila, V. (2021). Felt Justice. Correlations Between University Students and University Personnel. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Salminen, V. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 267. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_21

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