The relationship between organizational cynicism and job satisfaction:The case of professional tourist guides Members of Association of Aydın Tourist Guides

The aim of the research is toexamine the relationship between job satisfaction of the professional tourist guides. In the research, questionnaire technique has been used as the technique of data collection. Questionnaire were conducted to professional tourist guides working actively and being members of Association of Aydın Tourist Guides between January-May 2016. Without choosing any kind of sampling, all the professional tourist guides in the universe were tried to be reached. The questionnaires weredistributed and collected by face to face, by herself.230 active tourist guides were reached and 215 of these tourist guides were filled out the questionnaires completely. 15 questionnaires were filled up insincerly or having missing values, so they were'nt taken into evaluation.The data obtained from this study were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, independent samples test and one-way Anova, correlation and regression test. As a result of the research,weak level, a negative and significant relationship was founded between tourist guides' organizational cynicism level and job satisfaction.Furthermore, it has been found out that there were not significant differences between all the demographical characteristics of theprofessional tourist guides in organizational cynicism and job satisfaction. KEYWORDS: Organizational Cynsisim, Job Satisfaction, Tourist Guide