Organizational cynicism is a negative attitude toward one's employing organization. The purpose of the present is to investigate the relation of organizational cynicism to leadership, organizational justice, and organizational effectiveness. Questionn...
Organizational cynicism is a negative attitude toward one's employing organization. The purpose of the present is to investigate the relation of organizational cynicism to leadership, organizational justice, and organizational effectiveness. Questionnaire data were collected from 504 employees. To test the hypotheses, structural equation model was employed. The model showed adequate fit to the data. Results showed that transformational leadership and transactional leadership were negatively related to organizational cynicism. And it was also found that procedural justice was negatively related to organizational cynicism. However, results did not support the hypothesized relationship between distributive justice and organizational cynicism. Organizational cynicism negatively affected organizational commitment and organization citizenship behaviors. Implications of these results for research and practice were discussed.