3 Organizational cynicism

Cem Şen and H. Nejat Basım

DOI: 10.4324/9781003292401-4

Introduction

As posited by the resource-based approach and agreed by most scholars, human capital is universally the most important and difficult resource to imitate among all other resources (Barney, 1991; Wright, Dunford and Snell, 2001; Luthans and Youssef, 2004). It may be argued that employees play a prominent role in organizational success, high efficiency and performance criteria or the other way around. In this context, the most important requirement of ensuring the survival of organizations is to protect and cherish that key actor. Organizational cynicism has in recent years become popular and been increasingly studied for its negative effects ...

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