Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
Department of Management, Faculty of Economic and Business, Mulawarman University, Samarinda 75123, Indonesia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 13;18(14):7455. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18147455.
Drawing from the negative impacts of the perception of organizational politics (POP) on the literature on organizational outcomes, the model proposed in this study examines a nonlinear relationship of POP on job satisfaction. In a similar way, ingratiation as a moderator variable is tested. Based on a survey of 240 state-owned enterprise employees in Indonesia, this study finds that POP exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with job satisfaction. Low and high levels of POP have a negative impact on job satisfaction. Nevertheless, our most intriguing finding is that ingratiation behavior not only strengthens POP's effects on job satisfaction, but can also alter the direction of the relationship in which its shape is represented by a U-shape. This shape indicates that the employees who engage in high levels of ingratiation as a coping mechanism and adaptive strategy tend to do so when they perceive high degrees of POP. These results are then discussed from a cross-cultural perspective as an attempt to explain the legitimacy of ingratiation in Indonesia.
本研究从组织政治知觉（POP）对组织结果文献的负面影响出发，提出了一个模型，检验了 POP 对工作满意度的非线性关系。同样，我们也测试了迎合作为调节变量的作用。本研究基于对印度尼西亚 240 名国有企业员工的调查，发现 POP 与工作满意度呈倒 U 型关系。低水平和高水平的 POP 对工作满意度都有负面影响。然而，我们最有趣的发现是，迎合行为不仅增强了 POP 对工作满意度的影响，而且可以改变关系的方向，其形状表现为 U 型。这种形状表明，那些将高迎合行为作为应对机制和适应策略的员工，往往会在感知到高度的 POP 时这样做。然后，我们从跨文化的角度讨论这些结果，试图解释迎合在印度尼西亚的合法性。
