The Relationship between Organizational Cynicism and Innovative Behaviors of Sport and Youth Offices in Hamedan Province

Year 2016, Volume 4 - Issue 3, 295 - 303, 27.09.2016

Mohammad Fıroozı Azar Mokhtarı Gita Mokhtarı

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational cynicism and innovative behaviors of Sport and Youth offices in Hamedan province. This study is an applied research for the study population and descriptive correlational research in terms of method of coorelative type which tended to evaluate the correlation between the two variables. The population under study included all the personnel of Sport and Youth offices in Hamadan province in 2015 with 140 people working in this organization.

The samples were selected using Morgan table at 103. Instrument ­ of measuring organizational cynicism was the 12-item questionnaire of Dean (2008) and measuring instrument of innovative behaviors was the 8 item questionnaire of Kanter (1988). The reliability of the questionnaire of organizational cynicism and innovative practices using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.92 and 0.88, respectively. The results of multivariate regression showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational cynicism and innovative behavior.

The dimensions of organizational cynicism including destructive beliefs, negative emotions and degrading and malicious behaviors were reducing employees' innovative behavior and had the ability to predict innovative behaviors among which humiliation, degradation and malicious components had the greatest impact on innovative behavior.

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