Örgütsel değişim sinizmi ölçeği: Türkçeye uyarlanması, geçerlik ve güvenirlik analizi

Abstract

Cynicism has attracted attention in the organizational change literature in recent years, and the concept of 'change cynicism' has emerged. Change cynicism is defined as the employees' loss of belief in the ones who will make the change due to their unsuccessful change experiences in the past, seeing them as unwilling and inadequate to provide change, and accordingly adopting a pessimistic attitude about the success of the future change initiatives. Change cynicism is significant in understanding resistance to change and unsuccessful change attempts in organizations. This study aimed to adapt 'Cynicism about Organisational Change Scale' originally developed by Wanous et al. (2000) into Turkish and test its validity and reliability in measuring change cynicism in educational organisations. A total of 595 teachers and school administrators working in various state schools in Turkey participated in the research. In order to determine the construct validity of the scale, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed. The results confirmed two-dimensional structure of the scale had better model fit. The Cronbach's Alpha value was calculated as .94. The results of the research showed that the adapted scale was valid and reliable to evaluate the change cynicism of teachers and school principals.