Identification and ranking the factors affecting organizational cynicism and its implications with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP): (A Study among faculty members)

One of the problems that now threat organizations and is one of the challenges of management is organizational cynicism.

In this paper, the causes of organizational cynicism among faculty members and their implications have been identified.

After reviewing the literature and interviews with 15 experts, using AHP technique to identify and rank the most important reason was the organizational cynicism and its consequences.

Of the 19 factors were identified: perception of organizational policy , social cynicism, psychological cynicism, breach of contract , reducing organizational justice , reducing organizational support , job security and style of leadership. 8 also factor as to the consequences of the spread of this phenomenon at the University of 4 were identified by their important factor of experts respectively: obsessing over organizational change , reducing organizational commitment , reducing the incidence of organizational citizenship behaviors and reduction of job satisfaction.

The findings suggest that universities consider the factors in the creation of organizational cynicism and control of the spread of this phenomenon avoid the consequences