A Study to Moderate Desired Commitment Level in Organization with the Help of Cynicism about Change and Interdependence

Abstract

The main object of this paper was to shed light on cynicism about change and interdependence affecting commitment of followers. The commitment level affected by interdependence could be too high and moderated by cynicism about change. To serve this aim a survey has been conducted throughout all the workers of the industry leading textile retail dealer firm of Turkey in 2016 which was believed to be a good sample for this type of individual level research. A multiple regression analysis had been executed to measure the relation from the predictors of cynicism about organizational change to the dimensions of commitment. The study was one of the few attempts for the human resources professionals include cynicism about change in toolkit for commitment regulation. The results reported in the article were generally consistent with the prior studies. The sample size was sufficient to generalize the results for both the organizations and individuals working within. To conclude it was safe to say that under cohesiveness of reciprocal interdependence in work-teams, using cynicism about organizational change individual commitment level can be adjusted without any decrease in performance.