Impact of Perceived Organizational Politics on Job Satisfaction and Organization Citizenship Behavior
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56220/uwjms.v3i2.28Keywords:
Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment behavior, Perceived organizational politicsAbstract
Purpose: The present study examines the impact of perceived organizational politics
on the job satisfaction and the organizational citizenship behavior. To find out the
relationship between the proposed variables, a questionnaire was established in order
to collect data from employees of Pakistan ordinance factories.
Design/Methodology: Using the purposive sampling the data collection instrument
was distributed to 150 employees and their corresponding supervisors. Out of
distributed questionnaires 103 of them were rendered usable. All the respondents were
in the same work conditions. Respondents having same problems in the organization.
Respondents were from the age group of 18 to 70. Fresh employees and the
experienced employees both were the participant. Privacy of the respondent’s
information was top priority. Questionnaires have Statistical Package of Social
Sciences has been used in the study for both descriptive and inferential analysis due to
its proven predictive power. Various tests have been applied in this study such as
descriptive analysis, correlation, and reliability test prior to hypothesis testing. For
hypothesis testing, regression analysis has been used with the help of SPSS.
Findings: The findings of the study states that organizational politics have a significant
and negative impact on job satisfaction and organization citizenship behavior. This
study enables the top management that how to deal with the organizational politics.
Implications: This study enables the management of organizations to know the
adverse outcomes of organizational politics.
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