Identification and ranking the factors affecting organizational cynicism and its implications with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP): (A Study among faculty members)

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

seyedeh laya  mortazavi ¹ (دکتر)
ابوالحسن  فقیهی ² (faculty)

Received: 2017-06-12 Accepted : 2017-10-26 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), faculty members, organizational cynicism,

Abstract :

Background:One of the problems that now threat organizations and is one of the challenges of management is organizational cynicism.Objective:In this paper, the causes of organizational cynicism among faculty members and their implications have been identified.Methods: After reviewing the literature and interviews with 15 experts, using AHP technique to identify and rank the most important reason was the organizational cynicism and its consequences.Results: Of the 19 factors were identified: perception of organizational policy , social cynicism, psychological cynicism, breach of contract , reducing organizational justice , reducing organizational support , job security and style of leadership. 8 also factor as to the consequences of the spread of this phenomenon at the University of 4 were identified by their important factor of experts respectively: obsessing over organizational change , reducing organizational commitment , reducing the incidence of organizational citizenship behaviors and reduction of job satisfaction. Conclusion: The findings suggest that universities consider the factors in the creation of organizational cynicism and control of the spread of this phenomenon avoid the consequences