Perception of Organizational Politics and its Influence On Employee Relations

Abstract

Organizational politics is an individual's perception of political behavior in workplace i.e. overpowering, favoritism, competing employees, and policies’ manipulation for the raise of their individual benefit without any consideration for the prosperity of other employees or organization. The aim of this study is to explore the perception of organizational politics and its influence on employee relations in Pakistani corporate organizations. The study employed an inductive qualitative research design. Various human resource and industrial relations professional were interviewed with semi structured questionnaire. The research participant believes that one of the substantial medium of organizational abnormality is procedural injustice. The study explored that the overall perception of organizational politics is detrimental for employee relations because it creates hurdles for management rather than providing relief to the employees. The union leaders are trying to create gaps between Management and the workers. This detrimental influence leads to road block for an organization. This research also provide recommendation for future studies, researcher can study antecedents and compares of favorable and unfavorable politics across different management areas, Multilevel impact of political attitude at employees and workplace, the act of politics on high level decision making, Non-linear impacts of Organizational politics on individual employees, groups, and organizational outputs.