Effect of Organizational Politics on Employee Commitment in Public Organizations the Case of Gondar City Administration

Abraraw Chale

dc.contributor.author	Abraraw Chale
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-17T12:58:34Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-17T12:58:34Z
dc.date.issued	2021-02
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/11902
dc.description.abstract	Organizational politics is often explained as behaviour aimed at safeguarding the self interest of an individual at the cost of another and the organizational goals. The issue of organizational politics is under researched in developing world particularly in the public offices. Above all the issue of organizational politics has been separately studied from state politics; from which it originated. This deviation by the western scholars is probably attributed for the mainstream understanding held over separation of state and politics and the flow of resource ownership and management from public to private sector. However, the increasing complexity of social and economic system is pushing party politics (politician) involvement against the long held civil bureaucracy in the developed world. Contrary to the previous argument, in most of the developing world, public sectors are under strict control of national politics and subject to serving politicians purpose of their time. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of four perceived organizational politics dimensions; General Political Behavior, Go Along to Get Ahead, Pay and promotion, and Political Clientelism, as independent variables, on employee commitment (dependent variable) in selected Gondar city administration public offices. Perceived organizational politics (POPs) is measured by contextualized standard questionnaire including additional four items under one variable; political clientelism. Employees affective commitment was measured adopted from a three dimensional model. Data was collected from randomly selected 215 employees and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result shows General Political Behaviour; Go Along to Get Ahead, and Political Clientelism negatively associated and, are significantly disturbing employee affective commitment, Pay and promotion policy as dimensions of organizational politics found insignificant in affecting employees affective commitment. The study definitively tested the theories in a different context and contribute o the knowledge of the topic while recommending for further study areas.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Management	en_US
dc.title	Effect of Organizational Politics on Employee Commitment in Public Organizations the Case of Gondar City Administration	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US