Psychological Mechanism Of Perception Of Organizational Politics: The Moderating Role Of Leader-member Exchange And The Mediating Role Of Organizational Identity

Politics in organizations is simply a fact of life. It has becoming a popular field forresearchers of organizational behavior. However, people respond on the basis of their perceptionof organizational politics, not the reality of organizational politics. The main point of this paper isto test the relationship between perception of organizational politics and employees' job attitudesand explore the psychological mechanism that how perception of organizational politics effect thejob attitudes. The data are collected using questionnaire survey responses from 12 enterprises inShandong, Zhejiang and Anhui. All the data are analyzed with SPSS13.0 and AMOS5.0 statisticsoftware, the main results are summarized as follows:(1) The results of exploratory factor analysis on the sample show that staff's perception oforganizational politics contains three dimensions: self-serving behaviors, pay and promotionand coworker relations.(2) Perception of organizational politics has negative effect on employees' job attitudes. Itdecreases employees' organizational identity, job involvement, citizenship behaviors andincrease employees' turnover intentions.(3) The relationship between perception of organizational politics and organizational identity ispositively moderated by leader-member exchange. The negative effect of perception oforganizational politics is lower when leader-member exchange is high.(4) The effect of perception of organizational politics on job involvement, turnover intention,OCBs is mediated by organizational identity. When employees perceived politics inorganizations, they will show low organizational identity and then lead to low jobinvolvement, OCBs and high turnover intention.