Abstract
The study aimed to promote understanding of employees' reactions to organizational politics. The relationship between perception of organizational politics, job attitudes, and several other work outcomes was examined among 303 public sector employees in Israel. Perception of organizational politics was found to have had a negative relationship with job attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction and organizational commitment), a positive relationship with intention to leave the organization (exit), and a stronger positive relationship with negligent behavior (neglect). It is suggested that public personnel will tend to react to workplace politics with negligent behavior rather than by leaving. A weak negative relationship was found between perception of organizational politics and employees' performance as reported by supervisors. Perception of organizational politics also made a unique contribution to explaining variance among the work outcomes, beyond the variance explained by job attitudes and personal variables. Several implications and recommendations for further inquiry into perception of politics in organizations, particularly in the public sector, are noted.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 326-347 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Journal of Vocational Behavior |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2000 |
Keywords
- Organizational politics
- intentions of exit and neglect
- job performance
- job satisfaction
- organizational commitment
- public sector employees
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Applied Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Life-span and Life-course Studies