The Relationship Between the Organizational Change Cynicism and Organizational Commitment of Teachers

• Published in: Journal of education and training studies 2018-11, Vol.6 (11a), p.105
• Main Authors: Helvaci, Mehmet Akif, Kiliçoğlu, Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Correlation; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Employee Attitudes; Employees; Foreign Countries; Negative Attitudes; Organizational Change; Primary Education
• ISSN: 2324-805X; 2324-8068
• DOI: 10.11114/jets.v6i11a.3806

Organizational change cynicism is the situation that includes negative attitudes of the employees towards the changes in the organizations. Organizational commitment means the involvement of the employees into the organizations by being identified within the organizations. The aim of this study is to determine the organizational change cynicism levels and organizational commitment levels of teachers and to find out the correlation between the organizational change cynicism levels and organizational commitment levels of teacher. 352 primary and elementary school teachers working in Denizli took part in this study. According to the research results, the organizational change cynicism level of teachers is low, the organizational commitment level is high and the correlation between organizational change cynicism and organizational commitment is high. This study is a part of master thesis with the title “Öğretmenlerde Örgütsel Değişim Sinizmi ve Örgütsel Bağlılık Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişki” which was supported by Research Fund (2018/TP003) of Uşak University.