Title: Antecedents and consequents of organisational politics: mediating role of relationship conflict

Authors: Poonam Mishra; Amitabh Deo Kodwani; Shiv Kumar Sharma; Sanjeev Swami

Addresses: CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, #132, AECS Layout, ITPL Main Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560037, India ' IIM Indore, A-206, Academic Block, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau – Pithampur Rd, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 453556I, India ' Department of Management, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India ' Department of Management, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the direct relationship of perception of organizational politics (POP) with multi-level antecedents and its consequents. It further aims at exploring the mediation effect of relationship conflict on the relationship between the three levels of antecedents and POP. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 294 faculty members working in Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University. Hypotheses were tested using partial least square-structural equations modelling (PLS-SEM). Out of the five proposed antecedents, only relationship conflict was found to be significantly related to POP. Therefore, the structural model was re-specified. Results indicated that relationship conflict mediated the relationship between three of the remaining four predictors (scarcity of resources, workforce diversity and role conflict) and POP. It does not mediate POP's relationship with the need for power. Among consequences, POP was positively related to job anxiety and intention to turnover and negatively related to organisational commitment.

Keywords: organisational politics; scarcity of resources; workforce diversity; relationship conflict; role conflict; need for power; organisational commitment; job anxiety; intention to turnover.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2020.108918

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2020 Vol.20 No.4, pp.444 - 466

Received: 13 Aug 2018
Accepted: 09 May 2019
Published online: 07 Aug 2020 *

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