Abstract:

Organizational identification and organizational cynicism have become important research topics for institutions. While it is accepted that organizational identification has efficiency improvement benefits for institutions, organizational cynicism is considered to be reducing the productivity. The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational identification and organizational cynicism. Another purpose is to examine the organizational identification and organizational cynicism levels of the administrative staff working in the Faculties of Pamukkale University's Kınıklı Campus. In addition to these aims of the study, another aim is to determine whether there are differences between the groups in terms of the demographic characteristics of the administrative staff. In order to achieve these goals, a survey method was applied to administrative staff. The sample of the study consists of 174 data sets. According to the results of the research, a negative and significant relationship was found between organizational identification and organizational cynicism. In terms of organizational identification, there weren’t found any differences according to the demographic characteristics of the respondents. However, in terms of organizational cynicism, there were found some significant differences according to the age, education and salary opinions of the groups.

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