Change cynicism in educational organizations

The purpose of this research is to determine the organizational change cynicism level of the administrators and teachers during ongoing changes working within the boundaries of Uşak City Government Primary and Secondary Schools. At the same time, this research aims to determine whether administrators' and teachers' demographic properties such as their gender, duty, branch, seniority and education status differentiate or not on the basis of organizational change cynicism. The population of the research consists of 152 administrators and 1610 teachers working within the boundaries of Uşak City Government Primary and Secondary Schools during academic year of 2014-2015. The study group of the research consisted of 119 administrators and 434 teachers working within the boundaries of Uşak City Government Primary and Secondary Schools during academic year of 2014-2015. The study group in total is 553 participants. The data are collected with 'The Scale of Change Cynicism' which was developed by the researcher. It is five-point Likert type scale. It consists of 17 items including three dimensions, namely cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions. SPSS packaged software is used for the analyses of the data. In data analyses, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, anaysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. According to research findings, the level of teachers' organizational change cynicism (OCC) in terms of general average is at the mid-level; administrators' organizational change cynicism level is at the low-level. Teachers feel high-level change cynicism in affective sub-dimension; feel mid-level change cynicism in cognitive sub-dimension; and feel low-level change cynicism in behavioral sub-dimension. As for administrators, they feel mid-level change cynicism in affective sub-dimension; and feel low-level change cynicism in both cognitive and behavioral sub-dimensions. In addition, it was found that there weren't significant differences between participants' organizational change cynicism perceptions and gender, seniority and educational status variables; but found significant differences between participants' organizational change cynicism perceptions and duty and branch variables. Keywords: Cynicism, Organizational Cynicism, Organizational Change Cynicism, Cynicism in Teachers, Cynicism in Administrators