The Relationships between General and Organizational Cynicism: A Study among Healthcare Professionals

• Published in: International journal of caring sciences 2017-01, Vol.10 (1), p.216
• Main Authors: Topcu, Ibrahim, Unaldi, Nihal, Bacaksiz, Feride Eskin, Sen, Hanife Tiryaki, Karadal, Ahmet, Yildirim, Aytolan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Behavior; Cynicism; Employees; Executives; Health care; Nurses; Nursing administration; Organizational change; Professions; Studies
• ISSN: 1791-5201; 1792-037X

Organizational problems and crises encountered as a result of the faulty and unsuccessful implementations on the part of the organization executives trigger cynicism in the employees. Identifying any possible cynical attitudes against the organization will be beneficial in realizing the situation by the organization executives and taking preventive measures against them. In this study was performed to determine the general and organizational cynicism levels of the healthcare professionals who have been working at the hospitals of the Ministry of Health in Istanbul. This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample consists of the totally 1371 healthcare professionals. Data were collected between January and March 2012 by using General Cynicism Scale and Organizational Cynicism Scale. Data were analyzed through the descriptive, comparative and correlative analyses via IBM SPSS Statistics 21. It was found that GCS scores of the participants was 3.33±.64 (α=.79), and OCS was 2.70±.80 (α=.93). The was a weak but positive and highly significant difference between GCS and OCS scores (r=.207, p