Cultural Creatives’ Attitude Moderating Cynicism about Organizational Change

Abstract

1. Introduction This preliminary work with the participation of the education professionals in Central-West Anatolia tried to analyze both if the cultural creatives’ attitude eased cynicism to organizational change and for which personality type it was easier. Firstly participants commented about the literature of cynicism, practical creativity and the positive contribution of Enneagram. Then, by reservations of disagreement both the reasons of stultification behavior decreasing organization’s success and its troubleshooting possibility had been hypothesized. Following the explorative and confirmatory factor analysis on the obtained data from the questionnaires of cynicism measure in Turkey pre-test post-test variances of The Enneagram Course resulted no overlaps to personality types. Hypothesis tests showed that the employees were winced less from the negative expectations emerged of change thanks to Enneagram System. Moreover, the behavior factor was lead actor of cynicism about change while cognitive factor seemed to moderate inversely. Cynics might have distance without sacrificing solidarity.