The relationship between organizational cynicismand organizational commitment levels of nurses

This study which was designed in descriptive research design so as to determine the correlation between the organizational cynicism and organizational commitment of nurses was carried out with 280 nurses working in Çukurova State and Yüreğir State Hospitals in the province of Adana. Necessary permissions were taken from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee of Non-invasive Clinical Researches and Provincial Directorate of Health and oral consents of the participants were taken in order to be able to conduct the study. The data was collected between January 6, 2020 and January 31, 2020. The data collection tools of the study were Personal Informatıon Form, Organizational Cynicism Scale which was developed by Brandes et al. in 1999 and Turkish reliability and validity studies of which were conducted by Karacaoğlu and İnce in 2012 and Organizational Commitment Scale which was updated by Meyer, Allen and Smith in 1993 and Turkish validity and reliability studies of which were conducted by Wasti in 2000. SPSS 23.0 Package program was used in the statistical analysis of the data. Independent student t-test, One-Way Anova tests, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, Bonferroni tests and Post Hoc analysis were implemented. The average age of the nurses who participated in the study was 36.18±8.83. 90.4 % of them were female and 30.8 % of them were working for 1-5 years. The nurses' average Organizational Cynicism Scale scores was 37.98±10.71, their average Organizational Commitment total score was 52.60±8.40. It was found that Cronbach Alpha of Organizational Cynicism Scale was highly reliable with 0.915 and Organizational Commitment Scale had low reliability Cronbach Alpha with 0,686. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the nurses who had 1-5 years of experience, male nurses, the nurses who felt themselves comfortable in their workplaces and the ones who felt themselves belonging to their workplaces had lower organizational cynicism and the nurses who were working in intensive care units had higher organizational cynicism. It was determined that years of experience affected the level of organizational commitment. It was observed that the female nurses, the nurses who had 26 years of experience or more, the nurses who were working in the operating theatres, the nurses who were feeling themselves comfortable in their workplaces and the ones who were feeling themselves belonging to their workplaces had higher organizational commitment levels.