The relationship between organizational cynicism and nurses' perceptions of teamwork

In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between the nurses' teamwork perception levels and organizational cynicism levels, which constitute one of the most important elements of health services. The sample of the study consisted of 247 nurses working in two public hospitals operating in Istanbul between June 2019 and July 2019. "Personal Information Form", "Team Work Attitudes Scale" and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" prepared by the researcher were used to collect the data. Permission from the ethics committee and informed consent was obtained from the participants for the study. In analyzing the data, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 (IBM SPSS, Turkey) programs at the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Bonferroni corrected Mann-Whitney U, Spearman correlation analysis was used. Statistical significance was evaluated at the level of p <0.05. 47.4% of the nurses participating in the study are 25-29 years old, 74.5% are women, 53.4% are single and 81% are graduates. 44.5% have a professional experience between 1 and 5 years, 55.1% work for 1 to 5 years in the unit, 61.5% are service nurses, 62.8% work shifts and% It was determined that a portion of 73.7 worked more than 40 hours. The average score of the nurses participating in the study from the entire Teamwork Attitude Scale was 112.99 ± 12.44 and the average score from the entire Organizational Cynicism Scale was 2.52 ± 0.86. The effect of demographic variables in the Personal Information form on teamwork attitudes and organizational cynicism was analyzed, and as a result of the analysis, statistically significant according to the educational status of the nurses for the Teamwork Attitudes Scale and its "team structure", "situation impression" and "communication" sub-dimensions. There is a difference, there is no significant difference between other demographic variables, organizational cynicism and cynicism's "affective" and "cognitive" sub-dimensions differ according to the gender of nurses, the level of organizational cynicism of women is higher than male nurses, There is a statistically significant difference for the "affective" and "behavioral" sub-dimensions of organizational cynicism according to the duty of the nurses and there is no significant difference between the other demographic variables. Respectively. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that nurses' teamwork attitudes did not have a statistically significant effect on organizational cynicism levels. It was concluded that there was no correlation between organizational cynicism and team work attitudes (r = 0.017; p> 0.05). It was determined that the team work attitudes and organizational cynicism levels of the nurses participating in the research were at a medium level.