Abstract
Although the perceptions of politics (POPs) - job performance relationship has drawn considerable interest, and has been investigated in past research, there has been little focus on the intermediate linkages or mechanisms that reflect the explanatory power of this relationship. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the underlying psychological and motivational linkages of the POPs - job performance relationship, proposing and testing a serial mediation model. It is hypothesized that psychological need satisfaction and work motivation are the sequential mediating pathways in the relationship between POPs and job performance. Specifically, we argue that perceived politics thwarts employees' psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which depletes their intrinsic, identified, or introjected motivation at work, which in turn reduces employees' motivation to perform their job duties. To test the serial mediation model, we employed the bootstrapping approach using the SPSS PROCESS macro, and our results revealed that need satisfaction mediated the POPs - work motivation relationship. Furthermore, we found that only identification and introjected motivation mediated the respective indirect influence of POPs on job performance. Theoretical and practical interpretations and implications, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Emerging Trends in Global Organizational Science Phenomena |
Subtitle of host publication | Critical Roles of Politics, Leadership, Stress, and Context |
Pages | 211-229 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781536195507 |
State | Published - 11 Jun 2021 |
Keywords
- Autonomy
- Competence and relatedness
- Competition
- Economic stress
- Empathetic and trustworthy supervisors and coworkers
- Identified and introjected motivation
- Internalization
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- Job performance
- Needs frustration
- Parsimony
- Perceptions of politics (POPs)
- Psychological gratification
- Psychological needs satisfaction
- Self determination
- Serial mediation model
- Turbulent times