The Examination of Perceived Organizational Support (Pos), Organizational Cynicism and Counter Productive Work Behavior (Cwb) in Public Employees: Intergroup Gap Analysis

Public organizations in Turkey adopted working principles such as citizen-orientation, transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness with Law No. 5018 Public Financial Management and Control Law in parallel with the new development trends of giving up the traditional understanding of public administration. The most important factor is human capital in public organizations aiming at ensuring citizen satisfaction. In this article; levels of organizational cynicism, perceived organizational support, of public employees and their counter-productive work behaviors (CWB) were analyzed according to demographic variables (age, marital status, working time, education level, service period, service class). According to results of the analysis, significant differences were found for each variable in one or more scales. The results of this research indicates that should take measures to increase POS and reduce organizational cynicism in order to reduce and/or eliminate the CWB. So, Civil Servants Law No 657 (DMK), to which civil servants are subject, should be reformed by increasing effectiveness of merit system which is already an element of Law no 657. In this context, it should be remembered that not only competence and expertise, but also ethics and moral are an element of merit. When considering in the macro sense, merit constitutes one of the basic building blocks for the development and growth of a country in terms of both public and private sector functioning.