The relationship of autocratic leadership system with organizational cynicism in the organizations, the effects on the organization productivity

Leaders are the most important actors as connective factors for organizations. The effectiveness of leaders is a need for achievement, integrity and stability of organizations. At the same time, employees pay attention on the figure of leader. Because leader had a protector and director role for employees to feel themselves as a part of organization and system. According to this view, employees observe their leaders. However, as a classical leader model, the behavior of autocratic leader may be seen in the organizations, too. They can be seen the behavior of autocratic leadership because of the reasons such as cultural structure or necessity. Although this situation is accepted by some of employees, a big part of employees do not accept that leadership model. Because, generally, the expectation of employees is on a more democratic leader model. There can be come out some matters for employees and organization with this oppressive leader model. As one of them, organizational cynicism has become a serious threat in the last years. Organization cynicism, in particular, is evaluated as an output in the communication process. For the management of this process, there is a need for a conciliatory and mediator leader model. The situation of autocratic leadership in this point is controversial. In this study, it has been touched upon on the relationship between the concepts of autocratic leadership and organizational cynicism and their effect on organizations' productivity. In the last chapter of study, there is a survey, which is applied on 58 people, who work in the aviation sector, and in this research of survey, the perception of participants on the relationship between two facts has been analyzed.