Effects of cynicism on empowerment in organizations

Authors

  • Fatih Yıldırım Erzurum Technical University
  • Seda Kayapalı Yıldırım Igdir University

Keywords:

Organizational cynicism, affective cynicism, behavioral cynicism, employee empowerment

Abstract

Organizations are obliged to change fast, and even to be the ones that initiate change in order to survive in this ever-evolving and improving global world. Employee empowerment is considered one of the newest and main weapons against national and international threats towards an organization’s survival, and it provides improved alternative ways to reach organizational goals, accomplishing tasks, and providing better services to customers. Organizations should place an importance on this strong competitive tool and utilize the qualities of employee empowerment.

Organizational cynicism can result in a decrease in positive attitudes and behaviors such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. It can also result in an increase of negative tendencies such as intentions to quit the job, and other counterproductive behaviors. Therefore, organizational cynicism can create an obstacle for employee empowerment.

This study examines the relationships between affective and behavioral sub-dimensions of organizational cynicism, and the meaning of employee empowerment and autonomy sub-dimensions in a branch of a bank. According to the results, meaningful and negative relationship was determined between affective cynicism and meaning sub-dimension, and behavioral cynicism and autonomy sub-dimension.

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Author Biographies

Fatih Yıldırım, Erzurum Technical University

Assist. Prof. Dr., Erzurum Technical University, Faculty of Business and Administrative Sciences, Business Administration Department

Seda Kayapalı Yıldırım, Igdir University

Research Assistant, Igdir University, Faculty of Business and Administrative Sciences, Business Administration Department

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2016-12-23

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Yıldırım, F., & Kayapalı Yıldırım, S. (2016). Effects of cynicism on empowerment in organizations. Journal of Human Sciences, 13(3), 5740–5750. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/4124

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2016)

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Business Administration

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