Organizational Culture Management

Organizational Culture Management

Explaining the Mediating Role of Perception of Organizational Politics between Employees’ Political behavior and Individual, Job and Organizational Factors

Document Type : Research Article

Authors
Ali Asghar Fani 1
fatemeh sheikhinejad 2
Hasan Danaeefard 3
Alireza Hasanzadeh 3
1 Associate Professor of Management, School of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
2 Student of Organizational Behavior Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Associate Professor of Management, School of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22059/jomc.2014.50181
Abstract
There is an inherently political activity in all transactions, therefore, it is considered as one of the constituent elements of the organizations and has attracted the attention of management researchers. Although political behavior can have positive or negative consequences, much of the research
focuses its dark side. This type of behavior creates a divisive and damaging work environment that threat overall organizational efficiency and effectiveness, and has an increasingly negative impact on employees. So awareness of creating factors plays an important role in preventing and limiting such behavior. In this regard, the present study was done to explain the predictors of political behavior by using cortical (quota) sampling. To collect data the standardized questionnaires were used. Questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by content and construct validity and its reliability were measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficients for each of the variables. For the analysis of research data by Structural equation modeling and path analysis Lisrel and SmartPLS was used.
Keywords
Job factors
personal factors
organizational factors
perception of organizational politics
political behavior