Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Research and Development on Social Sciences, Rasim Yilmaz,Mehmet Ali Icbay,Hasan Arslan, Editör, E-BWN, Bialystok, ss.233-242, 2017
The study is
deployed on three pillars, which are cynicism, organizational cynicism and
locus of control. It is aimed to examine the differences between concepts
within the context of people's lifestyles.
Firstly, cynicism
concept is considered as a tendency of a pessimistic behavior about undisclosed
purpose of people and an attitude description of disappointment events about
them (Kanter & Mirvis, 1991). Cynics think that people are selfish and
utilitarian, but they do not demonstrate their intention obviously in
communities. Second concept is organizational cynicism that those cynic people
also can be found in organizations considered as belief that the organization
lacks integrity, negative emotions and critical attitudes (Dean, Brandes, &
Dharwadkar, 1998).
Thirdly, locus
of control is that the “degree to which persons expect that a reinforcement or
an outcome of their behavior is contingent on their own behavior or personal
characteristics versus the degree to which persons expect the reinforcement is
a function of chance, luck or fate, is under the control of powerful others, or
is simply unpredictable” (Rotter, 1990, 489). Those concepts can be defined
like what said above but those concepts have also some dimensions that it will be
explain at follows.
The main
purpose of this study is to analyze moderation effect of lifestyle on the
relation between organizational cynicism and locus of control. We used union
status and union affiliation of people in terms of lifestyle. Also demographic
factors, gender, age, work experience, tenure, marital status and education as
control variable investigated as moderation effects.
Although the concepts have recently examined its relationship with other concepts, the relationship between locus of control and cynicism, especially organizational cynicism, were not investigated yet. This study exactly is explorative studies based on the questionnaire. With the findings of the study, hopes to provide the new research directions, also managers will be able to take a chance to develop new policies to overcome the behavior of fatal, skeptical and cynic staffs.