Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this research work was to analyze the narcissism personality disorder in nurses and their impact on cognitive organizational cynicism with mediating role of psychological capital.Design/methodology/approachIn the current study, constructs developed from existing theories, generate hypotheses, adopt strategies for data collection and perform test to prove the proposed hypothesis. The nursing carder is the unit of analysis in this research study. Descriptive statistics, correction, and mediation analysis through Baron and Kenny’s were performed for analysis.FindingsThis research concludes narcissism personality disorder has significant positive association with cognitive organizational cynicism. The role of psychological capital is mediating to minimize the negative employee’s behavior toward their bosses and organization.Practical implicationsIn the light of findings, the current research work has implications at individual and organization levels. This research work will become as foundation stone to formulate strategies to overcome the organization cynicism in nursing profession. Furthermore, the organization formulates selection process more affective to find those candidates having narcissism disorder.Originality/valueThe current research work is designated first study to evaluate the relationship between narcissistic personality disorder and cognitive organization cynicism with mediating role of psychological capital in Pakistan.
Highlights
Background of the research The main attributes of narcissism are the personal admiration, delicate, privilege, dominance, and unfriendliness
This research work will become as foundation stone to formulate strategies to overcome the organization cynicism in nursing profession
Sample and size The nursing carder is the unit of analysis in this research study, the researcher know the population size, i.e., 1250 of nurses performing duties at divisional headquarters (DHQ)’s, tehsil headquarters (THQ)’s and rural health clinic (RHC)’s in division Sahiwal, Punjab
Summary
Background of the research The main attributes of narcissism are the personal admiration, delicate, privilege, dominance, and unfriendliness. The narcissism persons have the tendency to self-encouragement and self-suggestions but manipulate the outcomes to maintain their position. Aslam et al [3] conducted a case research design to find out the effect of cynicism on personal behavior, job upshot and organizational related aspects. The research work of Bell [6] studied the narcissism and cynicism as considerable inhibitor of gratitude and individual behavior. Kalağan and Aksu [24] studied the organizational cynicism within three subscales: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. The outcomes showed that the perceptions of organizational cynicism was different at various sub-scale level; at cognitive level, the cynicism was high, and at affective level, cynicism was lower. The cynicism state occurs when individual employee believes that organization has different problems and his personal efforts are useless to overcome these problems. Işık [21] stated that cynicism is coupled with lack of integrity which will leads to a negative powerful emotional reaction leads to critical behavior
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