Factors influencing Political Behaviour in organizational behaviour
Factors influencing Political Behaviour
The Factors influencing Political Behaviour figure depicts that there are two factors that influence the political behavior in the organization, individual factors and the organizational factors. Individual factors include certain traits of the individual that are likely to be related to the political behaviours. Employees, who possess high self-monitors, regularly keep check on their performance, and are more sensitive to the social cues. Those who have internal locus of control believe they can control the environment and can easily manipulate things and have a very high need of power. The Machiavellian personality is characterized by the desire to manipulate others and acquire power in the organization. These kinds of employees are more prone to engage in some sort of political behaviors in the organization. Also individual’s high expectation of success fosters political behavior.
Organizational Factors also give rise to the political behavior in the organization. If the organization is characterized by low level of trust, unclear performance evaluation system, scarcity of resources, etc. political behavior in the organization rises from low to high levels. The outcome of the political behavior may be positive or negative depending upon the level of politics in the organization, low or high respectively, and might induce the use of rewards or punishments consequently.
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