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This study focused on revealing the relationships and interactions between workplace gossip and employee cynicism. While workplace gossip is defined as informal conversations of at least two people about a third person who is not present, employee cynicism is; It refers to the negative attitude of employees towards their own organizations. Since both phenomena are thought to be effective on the performance of employees and therefore organizations, there is a need to conduct such a scientific research.
Our main purpose here is to reveal the role of the perception of gossip in the workplace on employee cynicism. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on a total of 324 academic and administrative personnel working in Erzurum Atatürk University Health Research and Application Center. As a result of the analyzes made on the data obtained from the participants, It was concluded that gossiping in the workplace was perceived negatively by the employees and this negative perception increased the cynicism levels of the employees.