The Role of Employee’s Social Capital in the Relationship between Empowerment and Cynicism

Anıl BOZ SEMERCİ (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, İktisadi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İşletme Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye)
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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 20 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 43 - 55 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.21121/eab.539372 İndeks Tarihi: 04-05-2021

The Role of Employee’s Social Capital in the Relationship between Empowerment and Cynicism

Öz:
This paper aims to explain the relationship betweenorganizational cynicism, empowerment and theindividual’s sense of social capital in terms of gender.In this direction the obtained data were analyzedby structural equation model. The results indicatethat structural and psychological empowermentshave reducing effect on organizational cynicism,and social capital has a moderator role betweenpsychological empowerment and organizationalcynicism for both women and men. However womenwith high social capital have a greater reduction ofpsychological empowerment on organizationalcynicism than men with high social capital. Thesefindings offer few recommendations for managersand employees. Managers to decrease employees’negative attitudes and to ease cynicism may useempowerment. However, even employees perceiveas psychologically empowered, managers also shouldconsider some other individual sources such as socialcapital that can buffer or strengthen the cynicism.Particularly for women employees, managers canfocus more on psychological and social resources inorder to decrease negative work consequences. Suchan investigation is necessary to reveal the predictorsof cynicism as one of the important concept inorganizational behavior and management literature.It is also valuable to understand the differencesbetween individuals in terms of cynical behaviourstowards their organizations.
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Çalışanların Sosyal Sermayesinin Güçlendirme ve Sinizm İlişkisindeki Rolü

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Bu çalışma örgütsel sinizm ve güçlendirme arasındaki ilişkiyi sosyal sermaye ve cinsiyet ile açıklamayı amaçlamıştır. Bu doğrultuda toplanan veriler yapısal eşitlik modeli ile analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlar çalışanların yapısal ve psikolojik güçlendirme algılarının örgütsel sinizm üzerinde azaltıcı etkisini ve sosyal sermayenin hem kadın çalışanlar hem de erkek çalışanlar için psikolojik güçlendirme ve sinizm arasındaki düzenleyici rolünü ortaya koymuştur. Bu bulgular hem yöneticiler hem de çalışanlar için birtakım öneriler sunmaktadır. Çalışanlarının olumsuz tutumlarını ve sinizmi azaltmak isteyen yöneticiler güçlendirmeyi bir araç olarak kullanabilirler. Ancak çalışanlar psikolojik olarak kendilerini güçlendirilmiş algılasalar dahi, yöneticiler sinizmi güçlendirecek veya zayıflatacak diğer kişisel faktörleri, sosyal sermaye gibi, dikkate almalıdırlar. Özellikle kadın çalışanlar için yöneticiler psikolojik ve sosyal faktörlere daha çok odaklanabilirler. Bu tür bir araştırma örgütsel davranış ve yönetim literatüründe önemli bir kavram olan sinizmin öncüllerini açıklamak için gereklidir. Ayrıca bu çalışma neden bazı insanların örgütlerine karşı diğerlerine göre çok daha fazla sinik davranış gösterdiklerini anlamak açısından da önemlidir.
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