Perceptions of Organizational Politics: A Need Satisfaction Paradigm

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rosen, Christopher C.; Ferris, D. Lance; Brown, Douglas J.; Chen, Yuanyi; Yan, Ming
• 署名单位: University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Waterloo; Hong Kong Baptist University; Sun Yat Sen University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0857
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1026-1055
• 关键词: organizational politics; CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE; creativity; PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY; social exchange; stress

摘要

Stressor and exchange relationship paradigms have developed in isolation from each other to explain the negative effects of perceived organizational politics. We outline how these different paradigms share a common basis-a focus on psychological need satisfaction- and develop a needs-based paradigm to account for the negative effects of perceived organizational politics. Moreover, we argue that psychological need satisfaction acts as an unmeasured third variable, which, once accounted for, should limit the utility of stressor and exchange relationship paradigms. Across four samples using a combination of multiple sources, operationalizations of constructs, and measurement occasions, we found full support for the needs-based paradigm as a mediator of the effects of politics on contextual performance, creativity, and proactive behavior, whereas strain and exchange relationship constructs by and large had no effect on outcomes once psychological need satisfaction was accounted for. Theoretical implications and future research directions are discussed.