Research assistants' organizational policy and organizational support perceptions and their organizational cynicism levels

This research aims to determine whether there is a relationship between organizational policy and organizational support perceptions and organizational cynicism levels of research assistants working at Abant Izzet Baysal University. The universe of the research is composed of research assistants working at the faculties of Abant İzzet Baysal University in Bolu province in 2013. Since it was possible to reach all the research assistants, a sample was not taken from the study universe. Data collection tools of the research are Personal Information Form, Organizational Policy Perception Scale, Perceived Organizational Support Inventory and Organizational Cynicism Scale. Descriptive statistical methods were used in the study. The data were analyzed with the SPSS package program. Frequency and percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Mann Whitney-U, Kruskal Wallis and Spearman Rho correlation analyzes were used in the analysis process of the data. According to the results of the research, the research assistants' organizational policy perceptions are at the level of "partly agree". Considering the values of the sub-dimensions, it has been found that "the organizational policies and practices" have the highest mean, while the lowest mean is "the behavior of the director and the colleague". Research assistants' perceptions of organizational support were found at the level of "partially agree" that means they were supported partially. While the highest values were found in the "academic counseling" dimension, the lowest average dimension was found as "task distribution". At the level of organizational cynicism, they are reported as'I do not agree'. The dimension with the highest mean is "cognitive" while the dimension with the lowest mean is "affective". Correlation analysis was conducted to determine whether there is a significant relationship between organizational policy perceptions and organizational support perceptions and organizational cynicism levels according to the opinions of researchers. As a result of these analyzes, there was a significant positive correlation between organizational policy perceptions and organizational cynicism levels of research assistants, but there was medium and high level of negative correlation between organizational support perceptions and organizational cynicism levels. Key words: Research Assistant, Organizational Policy Perception, Organizational Support Perception, Organizational Cynicism