Relationship between Organizational Cynicism and Ethical Leadership Behaviour: A Study at Higher Education

In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the relationship between ethical Leadership behaviour of faculty administrators of higher education and academics’ organizational cynicism behaviour. The population of the study is 400 academic staffs that work in three universities in Thrace region in 2011-2012 education years. Data were collected with organizational cynicism and ethical leadership scales. The data is reported with using multiple regression and path analysis. Three main results were found. First one is that academics perceptions for faculty administrators are in middle level. Second is that academics organizational cynicism attitudes are in high level. In the study, faculty administrators’ ethical leadership behaviour has a negative and consistent effect on academics’ organizational cynicism behaviour. It is found that perceived ethical leadership behaviour is an important predictor of organizational cynicism.