THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK ENGAGEMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL CYNISM AND JOB SATISFACTION IN A ROMANIA PRIVATE COMPANY
Keywords:
organizational cynicism, work engagement, job satisfaction, JEL CODECS, O 15Abstract
We all have the desire, impulse or motivation to change the issues which we consider does not going very well for us, neither we consider it is wrong or contrary to our ethics and personal values. In many cases, we instantly realize that our goals are not possible to happen, or we are not the most appropriate peoples to fix all the problems, or we are not allowed to intervene in such problems as well. Often, we can easily find in organizations the completely committed employees, eager to “give it all†or even to give more than it is required from them; contrary, we find the opposite employee: driven by pessimistic ideas, selfishness, with lack of interest; he is the element which spoils the balance of the organizational frame in which he/she activates; also he/she is driven by a skeptical, negative, detached, behavior towards his/her organization. In order to achieve their goals, it is extremely important for all the organizations to have trained, reliable, dedicated and committed employees. This study intend to identify the relationship between the organizational cynicism, work engagement, age and seniority of the employees from a Romanian private company
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