Employees are one of the important resources for today's businesses. In order to achieve predetermined goals, it would be better to meet the mutual expectations of the business and employees. Employees' perspectives on the workplace should be designed according to the objectives of the business. In this study, the relationship between positive psychological capital, perceived organizational support, organizational cynicism and organizational performance was examined. Surveys were conducted with the participation of 283 shipyard employees. LISREL and SPSS programs were used in the statistical analysis of the surveys. According to the results of analysis, it has been observed that perceived organizational support, organizational performance and positive psychological capital concepts affect each other significantly and positively. It has been observed that there are negative effects between organizational cynicism and perceived organizational support, organizational performance and positive psychological capital. In addition, according to the analysis results, no significant difference was found between positive psychological capital, organizational cynicism, perceived organizational support and organizational performance in the analysis made according to the demographic variables of gender, age, marital status and years of work. In addition, while organizational cynicism differed according to educational status, perceived organizational support, psychological capital and organizational performance did not differ significantly according to educational status. According to post-hoc results; it is seen that the averages of primary school graduates differed significantly from associate degree graduates, high school graduates from undergraduate students and associate degree graduates from both primary school graduates and undergraduate students. At the end of the study, some recommendations were made for researchers and employers.
Organizational performance,perceived organizational support, organizational cynicism, positive psychological capital.