This study investigates the relationship between upward influence tactics and job satisfaction from the Kaoshong city bus, According to the results of analyses conducted on data collected from 282 employees. The six individual difference variables examined were gender, age, marriage, tenure, position, and education. Results indicated the importance of upward influence tactics and individual differences on assessments of job satisfaction as follows:
Dimensionality of Organizational Politics Behaviors
The responses to the upward influence of organizational politics behaviors were subjected to principal components analysis with Varimax rotation. A three-factor solution was found to be most interpretable, with loadings of .50 and above used as an item retention criterion, resulting in a total of 21items being retained across the three tactical importances. It is comprised three subscales: (1)Rational Persuasion,(2)association,(3)Political tactics.
Relationship between individual difference and Upward Influence of Organizational Politics Behaviors
1.Male¡¦s ¡§Association¡¨ behavior is stronger than female.
2.Clerk¡¦s ¡§Rational persuasion¡¨ behavior is stronger than driver and employee, and employee¡¦s ¡§rational persuasion¡¨ behavior is greater than driver.
3.Clerk¡¦s ¡§Political tactics¡¨ behavior is stringent than driver and employee.
4.Bachelor¡¦s level of education¡¦s ¡§Rational persuasion¡¨ behavior is stronger than the other¡¦s level of education.
Relationship between Upward Influence Behavior and Job Satisfaction
Except the association political behavior of upward influence There is no any relation to the job satisfaction.
Control some personal characteristics variable, reported special relationships
1.Reported positively correlations between ¡§Political tactics¡¨ and ¡§Special job satisfy¡¨ with male.
2.Reported positively correlations between ¡§Association¡¨ and ¡§Internal job motive¡¨ with junior.
3.Reported positively correlations between ¡§Political tactics¡¨ and ¡§Special job satisfy¡¨ with junior.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0208102-143058 |
Date | 08 February 2002 |
Creators | Sheng, I-I |
Contributors | Sur-Jung Yen, Sui-Gerd Cheng, Jin-Meng Hur |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0208102-143058 |
Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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