Investigation of the Predictor Effect of Organizational Cynicism on Organizational Identification according to Teachers' Perceptions

In this study, the relations between organization identification and organizational cynicism were analyzed according to the views of the teachers. The sample of the study consists of 252 teachers working in the primary schools under Ministry of National Education in Yakutiye County, Erzurum, 2013-2014 educational years. "Organizational Identification Questionnaire" and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" were used in the data collection. In this descriptive study, standard deviation, mean, Pearson's product-moment correlation and multiple linear regression analyses were used in the analysis of the data. The results of the study show that the dimensions of the organizational cynicism have negative and significant relations with all the dimensions of organizational identification. The results of regression analysis show that cognitive dimensions of the organizational cynicism scale predicts negatively and significantly the compliance dimension of the organizational identification questionnaire the affective and; the cognitive dimension of the organizational cynicism scale predicts negatively and significantly the internalization dimension of the organizational identification questionnaire.