Investigating the Predictors of Perception of Organizational Politics

In recent years, research on perceptions of organizational politics because of its devastating effects on job satisfaction, job performance, effectiveness, productivity and ... has been considered by researchers in the field of organizational behavior. In this study the influence of personal, job and organizational factors on understanding of organizational politics is investigated. Statistical Population consists of managers and employees in water industry that have been selected using cortical (quota) sampling sampling. To collect data the standardized questionnaires were used from a five-point Likert scale questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by content and construct validity and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficients for each of the variables. For the analysis of research data by Structural equation modeling and path analysis Lisrel and Smartpls was used. The results showed that among the organizational factors, centralization had positive impact, procedural justice and participation in decision making had a negative impact on perceptions of organizational politics. All job factors (autonomy, feedback, skill variety, and communication (interaction) with manager) had a negative impact on perceptions of organizational politics.among the Personal factors only Machiavellian had a positive effect on perception of politics and assumptions concerning the positive effect of locus of control and self-monitoring on understanding of politics were not approved.