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A Study of the Relationship of Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Organizational Commitment: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Cynicism as Mediator

Political behavior prevails in organizations. Recently, organization researchers dedicate themselves to the issues related to perceptions of organization politics. The motivation of those organization studies is nothing more than the willingness of improving organization commitment, in turns to enhance long-term competitiveness in organizations. This study is based on the Revised Model of Perceptions of Organizational Politics, Ferris et al (2002), to discuss the relationship among perceptions of organizational politics, organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational cynicism. The study also examines whether the perceptions of organizational politics through mediating effects, job satisfaction and organizational cynicism, will influence organizational commitment.
After using structural equation modeling¡]SEM¡^ to analyze the research data in 2008, provided by Political Perception Research Team, which is led by Prof. Chin-Ming Ho, the new findings include:
1.For the influence of perceptions of organizational politics to organization commitment: ¡§general political behavior¡¨ shows a significant positive correlation; for ¡§go along to get ahead¡¨, it is not notable; regarding ¡§pay and promotion policies¡¨, it represents significant negative correlation..
2.There is significant negative impact between perceptions of organizational politics and job satisfaction.
3.There is significant positive impact between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational cynicism.
4.Job satisfaction has positive impact to organizational commitment.
5.Organization cynicism has negative impact to organizational commitment.
6.Job satisfaction and organizational cynicism are the mediators of organizational commitment and perceptions of organization politics.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0719110-110803
Date19 July 2010
CreatorsChen, I-Hua
ContributorsJie-Tsuen Huang, Yung-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-0719110-110803
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