Abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of social isolation on organizational cynicism. For this purpose, data obtained from questionnaires implemented to 162 employees works in 5 agricultural machinery production private company located in Konya were evaluated. In the evaluation, measures of central tendency and descriptive statistics were used, correlation and regression analysis and manova analysis were performed. The results showed that social isolation has statistically a significant effect on organizational cynicism. Also, the effect of social isolation on organizational cynicism dimensions were investigated. According to the findings, social isolation has statistically significant effect on three dimensions of organizational cynicism (affective, cognitive and behavioral). It has been found to social isolation has most effect on affective cynicism. Also, it has reached the conclusion that social isolation affect cognitive cynicism high level and behavioral cynicism low level.

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