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Association between Perceived Organizational Politics and Intentions to Quit: Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion
Abstract
This research investigates proposed associations between the perceived organizational politics on intentions to quit and emotional exhaustion. A sample of faculty members (N=220) from five higher education commission approved public sector universities of Islamabad participated. Data were collected by using non-probability sampling technique i.e. convenient. Participants provided information on socio-demographic variables and self-reported questionnaires on study variables. Psychometric properties of the study variables were found satisfactory. Regression analysis through statistical package for social sciences was carried out to test the hypotheses. Results indicated perceived organizational politics significantly related to intentions to quit, as well as to emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion was also found to be positively related to intentions to quit. Further, emotional exhaustion partially mediated the relationship between perceived organizational politics and intentions to quit. Findings suggested that perceived organizational politics emotionally exhausts faculty members of the universities, leading them to have intentions to quit their jobs. Universities need to identify perceived organizational politics in the work environment and efforts need to be focused on addressing this phenomenon.
Authors
Qudsia Jabeen
Ph. D Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Shakira Huma Siddiqui
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Hira Salah ud din Khan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
Keywords
Emotional Exhaustion, Intentions to Quit, Perceived Organizational Politics
