The Influence of Organizational Politics on Performance Appraisal

Author(s):  
Gary P. Latham ◽  
Silvia Dello Russo

Political behaviors in organizations consist of self-serving actions taken by an individual or group. They are directed toward the goal of furthering one's own self-interest without regard for the wellbeing of others in the organization. Such actions are informal and, as part of an organization's culture, regulate interpersonal relationships. The fact that the politics inherent in organizational behavior affect an employee's appraisal was noted more than a quarter of a century ago by behavioral scientists. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of systematic research on this subject. Thus, the purpose of this article is fourfold. First, the phenomenon of organizational politics is described. Second, studies on the relationship between political behavior and appraising employees are reviewed. Third, steps to minimizing its adverse effects on the appraisal of employees are outlined. Finally, a research agenda is suggested.

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292110290
Author(s):  
Amit Gupta ◽  
Abhishek Goel ◽  
Belen Bande-Vilela

This article tests a model describing the relationship between organizational cynicism and perceptions of organizational politics (POPS) and the mitigating role of empowerment and interpersonal relationships in satisfaction with work and managers. Data were collected from 361 employees of an Indian information technology (IT) services organization. The analysis of the model showed that empowerment of employees and interpersonal relations among employees alleviated the negative spiral of organizational cynicism and POPS. Lower levels of interpersonal relationships accentuated the organizational cynicism–POPS relationship.


Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 04) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Adams Bello ◽  
Shadrach Omofowa ◽  
Chijioke Nwachukwu ◽  
Anh Viet Ho Nguyen

The relationship between organizational politics and organizational commitment is examined in this study examines A survey research method was adopted. 245 staff were randomly selected for the study. Regression analysis was employed for testing the hypotheses formulated. The results indicate that “Go along to get ahead” has a positive relationship with organizational commitment. Pay and promotion policies influence organizational commitment and General political behavior” positively influence organizational commitment. The study concludes that firms should pay attention to organizational politics because it promotes commitment among workers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (37) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Francisco Sousa da Silva ◽  
Maika Rodrigues Amorim

O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir sobre comportamento organizacional e liderança, bem como a relação existente entre as duas temáticas. A metodologia utilizada foi de cunho bibliográfico, fundamentada em livros e artigos científicos já publicados sobre o tema em questão. Para tanto, foi abordado o comportamento organizacional, seus modelos, habilidades e competências, bem como as teorias mais conhecidas sobre a temática em questão. Inicialmente, foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico. Ao abordar a temática: Comportamento Organizacional e Liderança é impreterível abordar as relações de pessoas, no ambiente organizacional, uma vez que esse é composto por pessoas, dando-lhe vida e personalidade própria, porém a maneira por meio da qual as pessoas se comportam, tomam decisões, trabalham, varia de diferentes formas, sendo que tal variação vai depender, em sua maioria, das políticas e diretrizes das organizações na maneira como lidar com as pessoas em suas atividades. Para mobilizar e utilizar toda a capacidade das pessoas, em suas atividades, as organizações têm buscado modificar seus conceitos, alterando suas práticas gerenciais, investindo diretamente nas pessoas, que entendem dos produtos e serviços, em vez de focar somente nos clientes. Do exposto se conclui que os estilos de liderança possuem estreita relação com o comportamento organizacional, conclui-se ainda que a figura do líder é fundamental dentro desses arranjos do comportamento organizacional, liderando as pessoas, as equipes para que essas possam desenvolver suas atividades em consonância com os interesses da organização.Palavras-chave: Comportamento Organizacional. Liderança. Relações Interpessoais.Abstract This article aims to discuss organizational behavior and leadership, as well as the relationship between the two themes. The methodology used was bibliographic, based on books and scientific articles already published on the subject in question. For this, the organizational behavior, its models, skills and competences, as well as the most well-known theories on the subject matter were approached. When addressing the theme: Organizational Behavior and Leadership, it is imperative to approach the people’s relationships in the organizational environment, since it is composed of people, giving it life and personality, but the way people behave, take decisions, work, varies in different ways, and such variation will depend, for the most part, on the policies and guidelines of the organizations on how to deal with people in their activities. In order to mobilize and utilize all the people’s capacity in their activities, organizations have sought to modify their concepts, changing their managerial practices, investing directly in the people who understand the products and services instead of focusing only on the clients.From the foregoing, it is  concluded that leadership styles are closely related to organizational behavior, it is also concluded that the leader is fundamental within these arrangements of organizational behavior, leading people, and the teams so that they can develop their activities in line with the interests of the organization.Keywords: Organizational Behavior. Leadership. Interpersonal Relationships.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suleiman Abubakar Babagana ◽  
Norsiah Mat ◽  
Hadziroh Ibrahim

There has been a great deal of research into performance appraisal, especially concerning the factors that influence the effectiveness of performance appraisal (EPA). Studies suggest that elements such as organizational fairness, organizational politics, and leadership style may contribute to the EPA. Regardless of the evidence of research on these issues, there is paucity of research linking the impact of distributive fairness on the EPA. Moreover, prior studies, similar to this, have reported mixed findings. Accordingly, this study proposes the moderating role of employee participation in the relationship between distributive fairness and the EPA.  


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Aitken Schermer ◽  
Andrew M. Johnson ◽  
Philip A. Vernon ◽  
Kerry L. Jang

The relationship between self-report abilities and personality was examined at both the phenotypic (zero-order) level as well as at the genetic and environmental levels. Twins and siblings (N = 516) completed self-report ability and personality questionnaires. A factor analysis of the ability questions revealed 10 factors, including politics, interpersonal relationships, practical tasks, intellectual pursuits, academic skills, entrepreneur/business, domestic skills, vocal abilities, and creativity. Five personality factors were examined, including extraversion, conscientiousness, dependence, aggression, and openness. At the phenotypic level, the correlations between the ability factor scores and personality factor scores ranged from 0 to .60 (between political abilities and extraversion). The relationship between the two areas at the genetic level was found to range between –.01 and .60; the environmental correlations ranged from –.01 to .48. The results suggest that some of the self-report ability scores are related to self-report personality, and that some of these observed relationships may have a common genetic basis while others are from a common environmental factor.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-382
Author(s):  
Irsa Fatima Makhdoom ◽  
Mohsin Atta ◽  
Najma Iqbal Malik

The present study was an endeavor to extend the literature of perceived organizational politics by examining its moderating role between the relationship of organizational citizenship behavior and production deviance. Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (Mackenzie, Podsakoff, & Paine, 1999), Production Deviance sub-scale of Counterproductive Work Behavior Checklist-32 (Spector et al., 2006), and Perception of Organizational Politics Scale (Kacmar & Carlson, 1997) were used in present study. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that low levels of perceived organizational politics moderated the relationship between courtesy and production deviance by strengthening the negative relationship of these behaviors while perceived organizational politics did not act as a moderator for the relationship of civic virtue and conscientiousness with production deviance. High level of go-along-to-get-ahead as a moderator strengthened the relationship of civic virtue and conscientiousness with production deviance and its low level was found to be moderating the relationship between courtesy and production deviance. Future implications of the study were also discussed.


Author(s):  
Moshe Halbertal

The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. This book explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. The book also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. The book attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. Through the book's exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, it also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Alvaréz Teijeiro

Emmanuel Lévinas, the philosopher of ethics par excellence in the twentieth century, and by own merit one of the most important ethical philosophers in the history of western philosophy, is also the philosopher of the Other. Thereby, it can be said that no thought has deepened like his in the ups and downs of the ethical relationship between subject and otherness. The general objective of this work is to expose in a simple and understandable way some ideas that tend to be quite dark in the philosophical work of the author, since his profuse religious production will not be analyzed here. It is expected to show that his ideas about the being and the Other are relevant to better understand interpersonal relationships in times of 4.0 (re)evolution. As specific objectives, this work aims to expose in chronological order the main works of the thinker, with special emphasis on his ethical implications: Of the evasion (1935), The time and the Other (1947), From the existence to the existent (1947), Totality and infinity: An essay on exteriority (1961) and, last, Otherwise than being, or beyond essence (1974). In the judgment of Lévinas, history of western philosophy starting with Greece, has shown an unusual concern for the Being, this is, it has basically been an ontology and, accordingly, it has relegated ethics to a second or third plane. On the other hand and in a clear going against the tide movement, our author supports that ethics should be considered the first philosophy and more, even previous to the proper philosophize. This novel approach implies, as it is supposed, that the essential question of the philosophy slows down its origin around the Being in order to inquire about the Other: it is a philosophy in first person. Such a radical change of perspective generates an underlying change in how we conceive interpersonal relationships, the complex framework of meanings around the relationship Me and You, which also philosopher Martin Buber had already spoken of. As Lévinas postulates that ethics is the first philosophy, this involves that the Other claims all our attention, intellectual and emotional, to the point of considering that the relationship with the Other is one of the measures of our identity. Thus, “natural” attitude –husserlian word not used by Lévinas- would be to be in permanent disposition regarding to the meeting with the Other, to be in permanent opening state to let ourselves be questioned by him. Ontology, as the author says, being worried about the Being, has been likewise concerned about the Existence, when the matter is to concern about the particular Existent that every otherness supposes for us. In conclusion it can be affirmed that levinasian ethics of the meeting with the Other, particular Face, irreducible to the assumption, can contribute with an innovative looking to (re)evolving the interpersonal relationships in a 4.0 context.


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