Abstract:

This study is carried out to determine the organizational commitment and organizational cynism levels of the managers working in sports organizations affiliated to the ministry of youth and sports. While the population of the study consists of managers working in provincial directorate of youth services and sport and youth centers all over Turkey, sample groups are 434 managers who work in different positions in various departments where the survey carried out. In the first section of research; in order to determine the organizational commitment levels, Allen and Meyer’s (1996) Organizational Commitment Scale was placed. The scale’s Turkish format performed by Wasti (2000). The second section was allocated for Brandes, Dharwadkar and Dean’s (1999) Organizational Cynism Scale, a 13-item scale whose Turkish adaptation and reliability tests were performed by Kalağan (2009), was utilized. The data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 packet program. In addition to descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney-U, Kruskal-Wallis and Post Hoc tests were carried out in order to identify the differences in terms of demographic variables. Spearman correlation test was also used in order to examine the relationship between variables. The results of the study suggest that cynism levels of managers are low and their organizational commitment levels are medium-degree. In organizational commitment; there are significant differences in gender, marital status, graduate level, working position, working region and lenght of services variables. On the other hand, there are onyl two significant differences in marital status and working position variables. Additionally, it was found out that a low-degree and negative relationship existed between organizational commitment and organizational cynism. 

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