The effect of leader - member exchange on organizational cynicism and a research

This research was carried out to examine the relationship between leaders and members. The universe of this research among the teachers who live in the province of Istanbul Kartal district in 2016-2017 academic years. Our sample consists of 300 people. The data of this research on "Leader Member Exchange Theory" (LMX) and "Organizational Cynicism Scale" are collected.The first section touches personal information, second section mentions 12 statements relating to human values, in the third section 13 statements are given in order to measure cynicism effects. Using data obtained from the scale were analyzed via SPSS programme on computer. Spearman nonparametric test techniques in the study of correlation, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis was used. The relationship of the scores in the study were analyzed by Spearman correlation test and the difference in the scores of cases according to demographic variables were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. To determine the demographics of the participants in the first part of that question 8 Demographic Information Form is used. Leader – Member Interaction scale which located in the second part of the questionnaire used the measure the interaction, developed by Liden and Maslyn (1998) "Leader – Member Interaction Scale" is. The scale consists of 12 statements and four dimensions. Organizational cynicism scale is located in the third section of the questionnaire and has been developed by Brandes, Dharwad and Dean (1999) and Kalagan (2009) was adapted into Turkish. There are three dimensions to be cognitive, affective and behavioral. The dimensions of the scale has a Cronbach's alpha coefficient between 0.86 to 0.91. In the study, teachers and leaders about the relational dimension of teacher leaders focused on the effects of cynicism. Given the demographics of the participants according to the research results; when the education level of the participants 0,07% educational institutions have the graduates; it was determined that 74.2% of the piece and 4-year faculty. When we look at the relationship between leader-member interaction and organizational cynicism it was determined to be 0.688 percent a negative relationship in question.