The Effects of Organizational Cynicism on Turnover Intention and An Application

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of organizational cynicism attitudes of administrative staff, working at a public university in Istanbul, on their turnover intention. The randomly determined sample of the study consists of 217 administrative employees. Partial least squares path analysis (PLS-SEM) was used in the analysis of the data collected by the survey technique. SmartPLS-4 statistical program was used to analyze the data. According to the findings of the research; it is seen that affective and behavioral dimensions of organizational cynicism have positive and significant effect on turnover intention, but cognitive sub-dimension has no effect.The R 2 value of the model shows that the turnover intention is explained by approximately 52%.