The Tavistock method, commonly known as group relations, was originated from the work of British psychoanalyst Wilfred Ruprecht Bion. The Tavistock method’s basic premise is that an aggregate cluster of persons becomes a group when interaction between members occurs. Within a group, there is organizational politics, and there are two features of organizational politic that should be considered ...

Although government intervention in economies has been widely debated lately, the extent to which government and market affect employees’ perceptions about their organization remains inadequately discussed. We took the initial steps to create measures of perceived government influence and perceived market influence, and examined how they might be associated with organizational politics and just...

The aim of this work focuses on the relationship among the Dark Triad (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism), perceptions of organizational politics, political skills, and counterproductive work behavior. This study empirically tests the mediating role of perceptions of organizational politics in the relationship between the Dark Triad and counterproductive work behavior. Furthermore, ...

In this study the relationship between perceived organizational politic with job satisfaction and employee's performance among West Azerbaijan Province petroleum employment was investigated. To conduct this investigation, the Ferries and Kacmar questionnaire for perceived organizational politics; the Eisenbereger questionnaire for perceived organizational support; Wright, McMahan, Deleeuw quest...

BACKGROUND Workplace victimization is considered a major social stressor with significant implications for the wellbeing of employees and organizations. The aim of this study was to examine the influences of employees' personality traits and organizational politics on workplace victimization among Ghanaian employees. METHODS Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 631 employe...

With a diverse sample (n = 231 paired responses) of employees from various organizations in Pakistan, we tested for the main effects of perceived organizational politics and psychological capital on turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and supervisor rated job performance. We also examined the moderating influence of psychological capital in the politics – outcomes relationships. Results prov...

This article reports on the impact of managerial autonomy and strategic control on organizational politics and show how the latter influence effectiveness of strategic planning. In doing so, it outlines particular directions that a rebalanced strategic management research agenda may take. Whereas organizational politics have received sustained interest in the management literature, its conceptu...

The aim of this study was to examine a psychosocial model of predicting perceived social status among faculty members. To this end, 135 faculty members in one of the state universities in Tehran, Iran, were recruited through convenient sampling. We used Perceived Organizational Support Scale (POSS), Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS), Participation in Organizational Decisions M...