How the Perception of Organizational Politics Affects Organizational Creativity

Drawing from the negative impacts of the perception of organizational politics (POP) on the literature on organizational outcomes, the model proposed in this study examines a nonlinear relationship of POP on job satisfaction. In a similar way, ingratiation as a moderator variable is tested. Based on a survey of 240 state-owned enterprise employees in Indonesia, this study finds that POP exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with job satisfaction. Low and high levels of POP have a negative impact on job satisfaction. Nevertheless, our most intriguing finding is that ingratiation behavior not only strengthens POP’s effects on job satisfaction, but can also alter the direction of the relationship in which its shape is represented by a U-shape. This shape indicates that the employees who engage in high levels of ingratiation as a coping mechanism and adaptive strategy tend to do so when they perceive high degrees of POP. These results are then discussed from a cross-cultural perspective as an attempt to explain the legitimacy of ingratiation in Indonesia.

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Politik Organisasi dalam Latar Sumber-Sumber Kekuasaan di Lingkungan Kerja

Persona Jurnal Psikologi Indonesia ◽

10.30996/persona.v4i03.721 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (03) ◽

Author(s):

Ali Audah ◽

Sahat Saragih

Keyword(s):

Multiple Regression ◽

Work Organization ◽

Organizational Politics ◽

Regression Result ◽

Research Subject ◽

Power Sources ◽

Referent Power ◽

Expert Power ◽

Legitimate Power ◽

Perception Of Organizational Politics

Research aim to enhancement of understanding of perception oforganizational politics from power sources perspective. Research subject are 51employees from various work organization. Perception of organizational politicsmeasured with researcher design scale. Power sources measured with standardizedscale. Data analyzed with multiple regression. Result of analysis shows: 1) F = 2,637and p = 0,046 (p < 0,05), legitimate power, reward power, expert power and referentpower simultaneously are in the same direction correlate with perception oforganizational politics with contribution of 18,7%; 2) Legitimate power B = â€“ 0,340and p = 0,059 (p > 0,05) partially uncorrelated with perception of organizationalpolitics; 3) Reward power B = 1,601 and p = 0,046 (p < 0,05) shows that withcontrolling of legitimate, expert, and referent power, then correlation between rewardpower with perception of organizational politics significantly is in the same direction;4) Expert power B = â€“ 0,649 and p = 0,277 (p > 0,05) partially uncorrelated withperception of organizational politics, and 5) Referent power B = â€“ 1,304 and p =0,030 (p < 0,05) partially negative correlated with perception of organizationalpolitics.Keywords : organizational politics, legitimate power, reward power, expert powerreferent power

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The impact of Perception Of Organizational Politics on Organizational Citizenship Behavior

The Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology ◽

10.24230/kjiop.v25i2.397-420 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 397-420

Author(s):

HyunSung Kim ◽

SeaYoung Park

Keyword(s):

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Organizational Politics ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Future Research ◽

Perception Of Organizational Politics ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between POPs, OJ, OCB, BJW and LPS. Also, this study examined the mediating effect of OJ on the relationship between POPs and OCB. And this study examined the moderating effect of BJW on the relationship between POPs and OJ and the moderating effect of LPS on the relationship between OJ and OCB. Data were collected from 283 employees from a number of companies. The result of this study showed that the relationship between POPs and OJ is significantly negative and the relationship between OJ and OCB is significantly positive. Also, OJ fully mediated the relationship between POP and OCB. And BJW didn't moderated the relationship between POPs and OJ. And LPS moderated the relationship between OJ and OCB. Finally, based on the results, the implication of this study and the direction for future research were discussed.

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