Organizational climate and organizational politics: understanding the role of employees using parallel mediation

IF 1.6 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting
Swati Tripathi, D. Tripathi
{"title":"Organizational climate and organizational politics: understanding the role of employees using parallel mediation","authors":"Swati Tripathi, D. Tripathi","doi":"10.1108/ebhrm-08-2020-0107","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to inspect the influence of organizational climate on the social desirability of political behaviour of employees. It also examines perception of politics and perceived behavioural choice as the underlying mechanisms that mediate the relationship between organizational climate and social desirability of political tactics. Finally, the paper studies the influence of desirability of politics on frequency of use of political tactics.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses data (n = 234) collected from a large public sector organization in India. The inter-relationships are tested empirically using structural equation modelling.FindingsThe findings suggest that organizational climate significantly influences the social desirability of political tactics such that positive climate leads to lower social desirability of political tactics. Also, perception of politics and perceived behavioural choice mediate the relationship between organizational climate and desirability of political tactics. Finally, the social desirability of political tactics positively and significantly influences frequency of political tactics used.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the nature of the study, generalization must be made with caution since it has been conducted in an Indian public sector organization, and errors due to measurement method could be present. The study provides a better understanding of the relationship between organizational climate and political behaviour and clarifies the mediating role of perception of politics and behavioural choices. It also elucidates the need for organizations to accept the active role of employees in determining the nature of workplace politics.Originality/valueThe study establishes political perceptions and perceived behavioural choice as important mediators between climate and political behaviour, fostering in-depth research into the environmental aspects of public sector organizations. It also establishes employees as autonomous members of the organization who make political choices by taking into account their organizational contexts, a concept much newer to highly formalized and codified public sector organizations.","PeriodicalId":51902,"journal":{"name":"Evidence-based HRM-A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Evidence-based HRM-A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ebhrm-08-2020-0107","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Business, Management and Accounting","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2

Abstract

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to inspect the influence of organizational climate on the social desirability of political behaviour of employees. It also examines perception of politics and perceived behavioural choice as the underlying mechanisms that mediate the relationship between organizational climate and social desirability of political tactics. Finally, the paper studies the influence of desirability of politics on frequency of use of political tactics.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses data (n = 234) collected from a large public sector organization in India. The inter-relationships are tested empirically using structural equation modelling.FindingsThe findings suggest that organizational climate significantly influences the social desirability of political tactics such that positive climate leads to lower social desirability of political tactics. Also, perception of politics and perceived behavioural choice mediate the relationship between organizational climate and desirability of political tactics. Finally, the social desirability of political tactics positively and significantly influences frequency of political tactics used.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the nature of the study, generalization must be made with caution since it has been conducted in an Indian public sector organization, and errors due to measurement method could be present. The study provides a better understanding of the relationship between organizational climate and political behaviour and clarifies the mediating role of perception of politics and behavioural choices. It also elucidates the need for organizations to accept the active role of employees in determining the nature of workplace politics.Originality/valueThe study establishes political perceptions and perceived behavioural choice as important mediators between climate and political behaviour, fostering in-depth research into the environmental aspects of public sector organizations. It also establishes employees as autonomous members of the organization who make political choices by taking into account their organizational contexts, a concept much newer to highly formalized and codified public sector organizations.
组织氛围与组织政治:利用平行中介理解员工的角色
目的考察组织氛围对员工政治行为社会合意性的影响。它还考察了对政治的感知和感知的行为选择,它们是中介组织氛围和政治策略的社会可取性之间关系的潜在机制。最后,研究了政治可取性对政治策略使用频率的影响。设计/方法/方法该研究使用了从印度一家大型公共部门组织收集的数据(n=234)。使用结构方程模型对相互关系进行了实证检验。研究结果表明,组织氛围显著影响政治策略的社会可取性,积极的组织氛围导致政治策略的低社会可取性。此外,对政治的感知和感知的行为选择调节了组织氛围和政治策略可取性之间的关系。最后,政治策略的社会可取性对政治策略的使用频率产生了积极而显著的影响。研究局限性/含义由于研究的性质,必须谨慎进行概括,因为它是在印度公共部门组织中进行的,并且可能存在由于测量方法造成的错误。该研究更好地理解了组织氛围与政治行为之间的关系,并阐明了政治感知和行为选择的中介作用。它还阐明了组织需要接受员工在决定工作场所政治性质方面的积极作用。独创性/价值该研究确立了政治认知和行为选择是气候和政治行为之间的重要中介,促进了对公共部门组织环境方面的深入研究。它还将员工确立为组织中的自主成员,他们通过考虑自己的组织背景来做出政治选择,这一概念比高度正规化和法典化的公共部门组织要新得多。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
CiteScore
2.70
自引率
6.20%
发文量
39
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信