Abstract
Faculty job satisfaction is undoubtedly important to provide quality education to the future graduates of the country. Supportive organizational climate and perceived organizational politics have huge impact on job satisfaction. Keeping that in mind this study explores the job satisfaction and its relationship with perceived organizational politics and supportive organizational climate. Sample of this study includes 105 faculty currently teaching in three different private higher education institutes in Thailand. Result of the study shows that faculty job satisfaction has significant positive relation with supportive organizational climate and significant negative relation with perceived organizational politics. However, no role of supportive organizational climate is found on job satisfaction-POP relationship. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n5p396
Highlights
Detrimental effects of organizational politics were well-known, it has been ignored in literature for a long time
Objective of this paper is to explore relationship between perceived organizational politics, supportive organization climate and job satisfaction and role of organizational climate on that relationship in Thai higher education sector
H1A: General political behavior dimension of (POP_GP) is negatively related to job satisfaction H1B: Go along to get ahead dimension of perceived organizational politics (POP) (POP_GAG) is negatively related to job satisfaction H1C: Pay and promotion policy dimension of POP (POP_GP) is negatively related to job satisfaction This study further suggests positive supportive organizational climate-job satisfaction relationship, which is supported by the literature
Summary
Detrimental effects of organizational politics were well-known, it has been ignored in literature for a long time. There are two views of organizational politics; the first one is objective view, which focuses on the political tactics as an instance supervisor focused tactics which comes along with the higher career achievement rather than self promotion strategies (Judge & Bretz, 1994). Another view of organizational politics is subjective one which explains one’s view of politics inside the organization and called perceived organizational politics. Objective of this paper is to explore relationship between perceived organizational politics, supportive organization climate and job satisfaction and role of organizational climate on that relationship in Thai higher education sector. As job dissatisfaction leads to underperformance of the employee, here relationship of satisfaction with perception of organizational politics is measured
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