A Research On The Effect Mechanism Of Employee’ Perceptions Of Organizational Politics On Job Performanc In Chinses SOEs

Conflict between resource scarcity and multiple parties’interests is inevitable, and people always compete with each other for scarce resource in organizations. In this sense, organization political behaviors are widespread. Foreign scholars have already researched organization politics more than30years, which involve positive, negative and neutral perspectives. And the research orientation has shifted from objective political behavior to subjective political perception.As for relationship between organization political perception and work performance, most scholars get negative conclusions from social exchange theory and work pressure theory perspective. However, the realistic observation of Chinese State-owned enterprise points out, high political perception and high organizational citizenship behavior may coexist in state-owned enterprise. Contrary to existing study finding, this phenomenon can not be explained by existing research logic. Accordingly, based on Chinese State-owned enterprise context, the study pays attention to relations between employee organization political perception and work performance and aims to demonstrate related process mechanism and explores business, society, culture reasons of the influence differences. Research results may improve related researches in the field of organization political perception, extend research approaches and results, as well as make foundation to localization and cross-culture studies. In addition, it also assists to find out the reasons of low efficiency problems, promotes optimization and transformation of state-owned enterprise as well as provides micro-basis for Chinese democratization process.The study follows from general to particular analysis approach, takes historical evolution perspective, and utilizes theory construction and empirical methods to analyze relationship between political perception and job performance. Firstly, the paper reviews related literature and discovers limitations of existing researches. Based on inadequate research, it takes AMO theoretical framework as theory foundation, and builds general configuration of organization political perception and job performance. Secondly, it does in-depth analysis to Chinese traditional bureaucratic political culture, relationship society and SOE and finally gets the deep mechanism of Chinese employee organization political perception and reaction. Thirdly, grounded on general configuration and context characteristic analysis, the study proposes research model and related hypotheses. Work autonomy reflects self-determination extent and becomes strong representative for opportunity components; while self-monitoring reflects individual’s sensitivity and adaptability for environment and becomes representative for capability components. Then, the research builds research model involving main effect between organization political perception and job performance, dual-interaction effect between self-monitoring and work autonomy, and interactive effect among different job performance dimensions. Moreover, it takes the basis of conservation of resource theory, and proposes related research hypotheses. Finally, it does empirical research, including empirical design, hypothesis testing and results.Through1224survey data from large size State-owned enterprise, the study utilizes SPSS, LISREL and MPLUS software, and gets conclusion as follows:various dimensions of organization political perception exert different direct effects on various dimensions of job performance; the relationship between organization political perception and job performance has been moderated by self-monitoring and work autonomy, and self-monitoring has stronger effect; organization citizenship behavior and in-role performance have inverted U-shape relationship. Furthermore, the study finds out, organization political perception has both positive and negative impact on employee performance. State-owned enterprise’ compensation and promotion policy and job design lead to employee over focus OCB instead of in-role performance.The innovation mainly reflects as follows:drawing on AMO theoretical model to propose relationship configuration between organization political perception and job performance. The study also analyzes different dimensions of organization political perception and job performance and takes neutral perspective to continue research. Moreover, it examines3-way interactive effect testing between job autonomy and self-monitoring by MPLUS software.On the opposite side, the study has many limitations from research design, questionnaire design, variable selection, analysis technique selection, theory construction aspects which should be improved in the future. In the meanwhile, the researches on organization political behavior configuration, localization of organization politics concept, cross-context comparison analysis, multiple mediating mechanism, state-owned enterprise status, longitudinal study of organization political perception and impact evolution should be addressed in the future.