Open AccessOrganizational Politics and Job Satisfaction: Mediation and Moderation of Political Skills
Author(s) -
Abdullah W. Jabid,
Irfandi Buamonabot,
Johan Fahri,
Muhammad Asril Arilaha
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
binus business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2476-9053
pISSN - 2087-1228
DOI - 10.21512/bbr.v12i1.6226
Subject(s) - moderation , job satisfaction , politics , mediation , nonprobability sampling , psychology , government (linguistics) , organizational commitment , population , affective events theory , multilevel model , moderated mediation , local government , social psychology , job performance , public relations , political science , job attitude , sociology , statistics , social science , public administration , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , demography , law
The research examined the impact of moderation and mediation of political skill on organizational politics and job satisfaction. It applied a quantitative method. The population was 240 employees from the middle to top management in local government offices. With purposive sampling, 86 respondents working in the Regional Government Work Unit of Ternate City were involved in the survey. The research used a hierarchical regression analysis as a statistical analysis and IBM SPSS statistics Version 24. The results show that political skill strengthens the relationship between organizational politics and job satisfaction. Then, political skill also fully mediates the relationship between organizational politics and job satisfaction.