Abstract:

Purpose - Organizational sinism is the manifestation of negative beliefs, feelings and behaviors against the organization in which the individual is employed. The concept of organizational sinism, which is rapidly starting to take its place in the matters of contemporary management, appears as a behavior that threatens the existence of the organization by negatively affecting the activities of the organization’s benefit, such as organizational commitment, organizational performance, work satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational development and exchange activities. The aim of the study in this context is to determine the organizational sinism levels of the workers in the manufacturing industry and to identify whether there is a significant difference between their socio-demographic characteristics and the organizational sinism and their subdimensions. Method - In the framework of the study, 240 employees were surveyed and the findings were evaluated using the statistical data analysis program. In the analysis of data; illustrative analyses, independent samples have been used t-test and ANOVA test. Results - According to the analysis results, the participants' overall organizational sinism average, cognitive sinism, emotional sinism and behavioral sinism average are medium. The levels of behavioral sinism of employees are higher compared to both other dimensions and the overall organizational sinism. There have been significant differences between employees’ educational levels, status, income levels and daily working hours and overall organizational sinism levels and dimensions. It is possible to say that as the level of education and status increases, the level of cynism decreases. Debate - According to the results of the analysis, it has been found that there are significant differences between some socio-demographic characteristics of employees and organizational sinism and subdimensions.

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