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The Effect of Personal Machiavellianism and Tenure , Departmental of Advancement Opportunities and Career Development on Perceptions of Organizational Politics

This research is based on the framework of revision model proposed by Ferris et al. (2002), discussing the influence organization politics consciousness to staff's from Machiavellianism personality tendency and the tenure of the work and the opportunity of promotion in working department and the career development plan.
It takes 130th staffs of 40 organization in Taiwan as the research object. 2133 copies of questionnaire have been issued and 1,940 copies have been taken back, the returns-ratio reaches 91.0%. After rejecting 50 invalid copies, the effective volume is 1,890, and effective returns-ratio is 88.6%. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, item analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, factor analysis and hierarchical linear model.
The major resultsof this study are as fallowing:
1. Machiavellianism has a significant effect on perceptions of organizational politics.
2. Tenure has no effect on perceptions of organizational politics.
3. Promotion opportunity has no effect on perceptions of organizational politics.
4. Career Development has a significant effect on perceptions of organizational politics.
5. Promotion opportunity has no moderate effect on the relationship between Machiavellianism and perceptions of organizational politics.
6. Career development has no moderate effect on the relationship between Machiavellianism and perceptions of organizational politics.
7. Promotion opportunity has no moderate effect on the relationship between tenure and perceptions of organizational politics.
8. Career development has no moderate effect on the relationship between tenure and perceptions of organizational politics.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0625108-093348
Date25 June 2008
CreatorsLee, Li-chun
ContributorsJie-Tsuen Huang, Yuan-Chuan Wang, Chin-ming Ho
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0625108-093348
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