THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CYNICISM ON JOB PERFORMANCE: EVALUATING THE MEDIATIONAL ROLE OF EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING

Abstract

Competition has skyrocketed in every walk of life in the new era of the business world. In the workplace, this cut-throat rivalry gives rise to envy and other negative attitudes such as cynicism that can be characterized as a detrimental approach to one's engaging industry. Employee performance is a significant dimension in the IT field. Organization Cynicism is described as a work attitude involving dissatisfaction and a collection of negative feelings towards a person's or a group's or an object's mistrust.Organization Cynicism is one of the significant work behaviours that directly influence the behavioral habits of workers towards the achievement of goals.Performance of such employees can be retainedand improved by an appropriate onboarding process. Therefore the purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of organizational cynicism on job performance when employee onboarding performs a mediational role. With the help of structured questionnaire, data from 347 respondents was obtained from IT employees in various IT parks in the state of Kerala which was analysed through SPSS version 20.The result revealed that there are correlation between the organizational cynicism and Job performance, organizational cynicism and employee onboarding and also employee onboarding and Job performance.