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2nd International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (ICLEL) -- JUL 21-23, 2016 -- Liepaja Univ, Liepaja, LATVIA WOS: 000392658100088 The purpose of this research is to determine the organizational change cynicism level of the administrators and teachers and determine whether administrators' and teachers' demographic properties such as their gender, duty, branch, seniority and education status differentiate or not on the basis of organizational change cynicism. The study group of the research consisted of 119 administrators and 434 teachers working within the boundaries of Usak City Government Primary and Secondary Schools during academic year of 2014-2015. The data are collected with 'Change Cynicism Scale' developed by the researchers. SPSS 18 packaged software is used for the analyses of the data. In data analyses, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA were used. According to research findings, teachers' organizational change cynicism in terms of general average is at the mid-level; administrators' organizational change cynicism is at the low-level. Teachers feel high-level change cynicism in affective sub-dimension; mid-level change cynicism in cognitive sub-dimension; and low-level change cynicism in behavioral sub-dimension. As for administrators, they feel mid-level change cynicism in affective sub-dimension; and low-level change cynicism in both cognitive and behavioral sub-dimensions. It was found that there weren't significant differences between participants' organizational change cynicism perceptions and gender, seniority and educational status variables; but found significant differences between participants' organizational change cynicism perceptions and duty and branch variables. |
