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Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution

Unlike the past few decades, the higher education environment nowadays has been experiencing tremendous transformations and changes.As a result, higher education institutions have to prepare planned changes to cope with the shifting educational environment.However, higher education institutions are...

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Main Authors: Mohd Noor, Nor Azila, Mohd Walid, Zamzam
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/17133/1/12ii.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.171332016-04-18T03:14:17Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17133/ Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution Mohd Noor, Nor Azila Mohd Walid, Zamzam HD28 Management. Industrial Management LB2300 Higher Education Unlike the past few decades, the higher education environment nowadays has been experiencing tremendous transformations and changes.As a result, higher education institutions have to prepare planned changes to cope with the shifting educational environment.However, higher education institutions are guided by traditional academic values, such as "intellectual creativity," "academic freedom," and "shared governance," more than just by the "bottom-line performance" in corporate organizations. When any change efforts interrupt the deep-rooted academic culture, academicians tend to respond with cynicism.Employee's cynicism towards organizational change or known as change-specific cynicism refers to the tendency of employees to be cynical about any changes introduced by their respective organizations.This study examines the level of employees' cynicism when dealing with organizational change in higher organizational setting.A total of 263 lecturers have been chosen as sample in this study.The study shows that the level of change specific cynicism among respondents are at moderate level.Analysis undertaken shows that change specific cynicism tends to be differ across age and academic qualification.Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed. 2014-01 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17133/1/12ii.pdf Mohd Noor, Nor Azila and Mohd Walid, Zamzam (2014) Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution. In: Annual Conference on Children, Women, and Social Studies (ACCAWS), January 9-11, 2014, Seoul, Korea.
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
LB2300 Higher Education
Mohd Noor, Nor Azila
Mohd Walid, Zamzam
Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
description Unlike the past few decades, the higher education environment nowadays has been experiencing tremendous transformations and changes.As a result, higher education institutions have to prepare planned changes to cope with the shifting educational environment.However, higher education institutions are guided by traditional academic values, such as "intellectual creativity," "academic freedom," and "shared governance," more than just by the "bottom-line performance" in corporate organizations. When any change efforts interrupt the deep-rooted academic culture, academicians tend to respond with cynicism.Employee's cynicism towards organizational change or known as change-specific cynicism refers to the tendency of employees to be cynical about any changes introduced by their respective organizations.This study examines the level of employees' cynicism when dealing with organizational change in higher organizational setting.A total of 263 lecturers have been chosen as sample in this study.The study shows that the level of change specific cynicism among respondents are at moderate level.Analysis undertaken shows that change specific cynicism tends to be differ across age and academic qualification.Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohd Noor, Nor Azila
Mohd Walid, Zamzam
author_facet Mohd Noor, Nor Azila
Mohd Walid, Zamzam
author_sort Mohd Noor, Nor Azila
title Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
title_short Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
title_full Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
title_fullStr Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
title_full_unstemmed Employee's cynicism in organization: A look at Malaysian higher education institution
title_sort employee's cynicism in organization: a look at malaysian higher education institution
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/17133/1/12ii.pdf
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