Employee Cynicism and Organizational Change

Organizational Change Cynicism: the Role of Employee Involvement

E mployees have become more cynical about their organizations (Feldman, 2000). There are many potential targets for such cynicism, such as one’s occupation, top managers, and organizational change efforts (Dean, Brandes, & Dharwadkar, 1998). This article addresses organizational change cynicism (OCC), which has the potential to undermine change programs (Reicher, Wanous, & Austin, 1997), and fo...

Organizational Change and Employee Stress

This article analyzes the relationship between organizational change and employee health. It illuminates the potentially negative outcomes of change at the level of the employee. In addition, it relates to the ongoing debate over how employees react to and respond to organizational change. I hypothesize that change increases the risk of negative stress, and I test this hypothesis using a compre...

an investigation of the impact of employee cynicism toward organizational change on organizational health

one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...

Cynicism about Organizational Change : Measurement , Antecedents , and Correlates

Dispositional Predictors of Organizational Cynicism

Researchers have suggested that organizational cynicism is increasing among employees. Although cynicism has been examined from a situational perspective, little work has examined the dispositional roots of this attitude. In this paper we explore the dispositional variables that predict organizational cynicism and suggest that future research explore the development of cynical attitudes from bo...