The relation between organizational cynicism and leadership: İstanbul Bahçelievler example

The aim of this research is to determine the relation between leadership and organizational cynicism. For this, whether the relation between leadership and organizational cynicism changes or not according to determined factors has been studied. The topic of the research consists of the teachers working in Bahçelievler in the province of İstanbul.The sample of the research is the ones chosen at random among the teachers working at schools of the ministry of education in Bahçelievler in the province of İstanbul. In the research, relational scanning model has been used in order to study the relation between the attitudes of organizational cynicism and forms of leadership of the class and branch teachers in İstanbul. In the research in order to gather data, a survey consisting of 3 parts has been carried out. The first survey includes demographic information. The second survey is the survey of the description of leadership forms which contain 32 items and was developed by Bolman and Deal (1991). In the third part of the survey, a scale of 14 items was used which has been conceptualized by Brandes, Dharwodker and Dean in order to measure the level of organizational cynicism which contains cognitive, emotional and behavioral factors. After the data was gathered, findings have been studied so as to evaluate the various factors such as attendants' vocational seniority, age, title and gender. As the data is not parametric, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test have been used. In addition, Spearman correlation test has been used so as to determine the relations between the data. At the end of the research, in the leadership scale and in its under dimensions, in general, a meaningful difference has been found between the workplace factors and vocational seniority. It has been found that the ones who have 11 or more years of vocational experience have a higher leadership perception. Moreover, when the workplace factor has been studied, the ones who work at primary school or highschool have a higher leadership perception than the ones working at secondary school. It has shown that there is a medium and opposite directional relation between cynicism and leadership.