This thesis aims to construct an organizational political behavioral inventory. Frequently the tactics was used by members of an organization to affect their fellow members. Moreover they take adavntage of the opportunities of mastering and distributing organizational resources to make a profit for themselves.
The data are collectted from the subjects of scholars and experts who participate in the organization located in southern Taiwan. The subjects who own the substantial power include the experts in Human Resource Management, company managers, factory directors and chiefs in the personnel department. They are asked to describe some incidents in which people at their company influence others in a short statement. Then according to the operational definition, it is eliminated, polished and integrated to make a forty-eight-item script of organizational political behavioral inventory which adopts the Likert¡¦s 5-point scale. The research chooses members of eleven companies to be the subjects of the script with a convenient sampling. These questionnaires are analyzed with different analytical methods. These include factor analysis (principal, varimax), communality, item analysis(internal consistent criterial) and Cronbach¡¦s £\ value. It also analyzes whether the subjects are affected by social desirability as well as the relationship of Machivalli's ¢¼ between subjects in order to construct a more valid, reliable, and practical inventory related to organizational political behavior.
Base on the analyses mentioned above, ten items of the inventory script are deleted. The result of factor analysis obtains eight components. Total variance explained 69.181 %, and the community of each item is 0.5 above. The Cronbach¡¦s £\ in total inventory is 0.9438. Only two are lower than 0.6 among factors, where as the rest are higher than 0.7. The relationship of item-total of every factor achieves a significant level(p¡Õ.001). The test of the discriminatory power of each item also achieves a significant level. It concludes that the inventory resposed by the subjects aren¡¦t affected by social desirability. The comparison in Machivalli¡¦s ¢¼ doesn¡¦t have any significant difference between the chiefs in the basic and the chiefs in the middle or high level, between the people in the basic and the people in the middle or high level, between the people other than chiefs in the middle or high level and the chiefs in the middle or high level.
The eight factors of the organizational political behavior are described in brief as follows:
Factor 1: This includes seven items. It means that members are good at circulating the rumors, fomenting discord and lashing others.
Factor 2: This includes nine items. It means that members use the power to oppress the opponent parties or groups and force them to accept what they don¡¦t really want.
Factor 3: This includes eight items. It means that members make use of authority of office to oppress others and deal with the things arbitrarily.
Factor 4: This includes five items. It means that members deal with the things successfully, by encouraging the subordinates, and rewarding subordinates.
Factor 5: This includes two items. It means that members don¡¦t have their own opinions and flatter others on purpose.
Factor 6: This factor includes two items. It means that members keep a low profile to get the information and are good at tricks.
Factor 7: This includes two items. It means that members play an active role in expressing personal opinions and attracting others¡¦ attention.
Factor 8: This includes three items. It means that members build up their professional images, express their intentions in a roundabout way, and never expose their inner feelings easily.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0912102-112550 |
| Date | 12 September 2002 |
| Creators | Chang, Chen-Lin |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| 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-0912102-112550 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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