Relationship Between Power And Politics In Organization Towards Employee Job Performance

Power and politics in organization have been one of determinant effects towards employee job performance. Previous research findings have seen power and politics are giving bad impacts to employee wellbeing which affecting their job performance. Hence, the objective of this research is to explore de...

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Main Author: Gary Jawa, Brooke
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2020
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32386/1/Gary.pdf
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Summary:Power and politics in organization have been one of determinant effects towards employee job performance. Previous research findings have seen power and politics are giving bad impacts to employee wellbeing which affecting their job performance. Hence, the objective of this research is to explore deeper on organizational power and politics in the presence of personality traits from the perspective of technician level and how it effects towards their job performance. The research is conducted with questionnaire survey distributed to 74 employees who worked as a technician in local manufacturing sector. Data analysis procedure are using descriptive statistics mainly to describe the behaviour of sample data from demographic profile of respondents, on the other hand researcher are using Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression in the inferential statistics. Results reveal from those hypotheses testing is there are significant relationship between organizational politics and political behaviour in organization towards employee job performance. It was also found that conscientiousness in personality traits shows they are high positive correlation towards employee job performance. These results are supported by establishment of the most dominant factors from three independent variables by using Multiple Regression where it is found that Conscientiousness in Personality Traits and Political Behaviour contributes to 68.4% to employee job performance. As such, discussion on Bandura Self-Efficacy Theory would be relevant to explore individual’s personality traits as working people involve a lot with organizational power and politics. In conclusion, researcher has outlining several recommendations and implications for organization and future researcher based on the current findings.