Mediation Role of Organizational Commitment in the Relationships of Organizational Politics and Job Involvement and Employee Performance

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the mediating role of employee’s organizational commitment in the links between organizational politics to employee job involvement and performance. Hypotheses were tested using questionnaire data obtained from the employees in public sector organizations in Pakistan. Using random sampling method 200 questionnaires was distributed and 150 were returned (75% response rate). The results of this study analysis show that organizational politics negatively effeted organizational commitment, job involvement and job performance and organizational commitment was played partially mediation between organizational politics and employee job involvement and performance as well as also job involvement was also played partial mediation role between organizational politics and job performance. The paper’s findings suggest that it is important for managers to focus exclusively on to reduce the organizational politics. That will increase the creativity, job satisfaction; employee’s in-role performance. Research on the effect of relative factors, such as national culture on the motives, in and reactions to, organizational politics, is desired. The contribution of this study lies in its pointing to some new directions for better explaining the relationship among organizational politics, employee job performance and employee job commitment in the public arena.