Bashir Mohsin, Abrar Muhammad, Yousaf Muhammad, Saqib Shahnawaz, Shabbir Rizwan
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Lyallpur Business School, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Rahim Yar Khan Division, MEPCO, Punjab, Pakistan.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2019 Oct 10;12:943-959. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S213672. eCollection 2019.
Politics and political behaviors are a vicious and bitter reality in an organization's life. Although under investigation for more than three decades, the literature lacks sufficient studies investigating culture-specific potential factors which have the potency to moderate the poisonous consequences of organizational politics. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of organizational politics and deviance in unionized settings with the moderating role of resilience in unionized employees in higher power distance culture.
A cross-sectional design was followed for data collection. The population of this study was low-ranked employees having union identity and working in the largest power distribution company of Pakistan. Stratified sampling was applied, and eight strata's were considered on the basis of geographical distribution, a total of 400 questionnaires were distributed among the employees of eight circles, fifty from each. Smart PLS.3.2.0 was used to analyze data through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) under measurement and structural models.
From a theoretical perspective, this study confirmed that employees tend to show interpersonal deviance when they experience organizational politics, but organizational politics does not promote organizational deviance. Under stress, the individual also shows a slightly higher level of interpersonal deviance as compared to organizational deviance. However, the moderating role of resilience has not been proved in this study. Research limitations and future directions have also been discussed.
政治和政治行为是组织生活中一个恶劣且痛苦的现实。尽管已经研究了三十多年，但文献中缺乏足够的研究来探讨特定文化背景下可能缓和组织政治有害后果的潜在因素。本研究的目的是在高权力距离文化背景下，调查工会化环境中组织政治与偏差行为之间的关系，以及工会化员工的复原力所起的调节作用。
采用横断面设计收集数据。本研究的总体是具有工会身份且在巴基斯坦最大的配电公司工作的低级别员工。采用分层抽样，根据地理分布划分出八个层次，共向八个部门的员工发放了400份问卷，每个部门50份。使用Smart PLS.3.2.0通过结构方程模型（SEM）在测量模型和结构模型下对数据进行分析。
从理论角度来看，本研究证实员工在经历组织政治时往往会表现出人际偏差行为，但组织政治并不会引发组织偏差行为。在压力下，个体表现出的人际偏差行为水平也略高于组织偏差行为。然而，本研究并未证实复原力的调节作用。同时也讨论了研究的局限性和未来方向。
