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The Effect of Employees¡¦ Machiavellianism and type A personality 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 and type A personality.
The sample consisted of 1890 employee selected from 40 organizations covering 9 industrial sectors in Taiwan. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and structural equation modeling and the summarized findings are in the following sections.
The major results of this study are as fallowing:
1. Machiavellianism has a significant effect on employees¡¦ general political behavior of organizational politics perceptions.
2. Machiavellianism has a significant effect on employees¡¦ benefits of remaining silence of organizational politics perceptions.
3. Machiavellianism has a significant effect on employees¡¦ salary and promotion policies of organizational politics perceptions.
4. Type A personality has a significant effect on employees¡¦ general political behavior of organizational politics perceptions.
5. Type A personality has a significant effect on employees¡¦ benefits of remaining silence of organizational politics perceptions.
6. Type A personality has a significant effect on employees¡¦ salary and promotion policies of organizational politics perceptions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0806110-133205
Date06 August 2010
CreatorsLi, Meng-hua
Contributorsnone, Chin-Ming Ho, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0806110-133205
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