Abstract:
This study investigates various factors of employee performance that are being affected by
organizational politics in a service sector of Pakistan.
Organizational politics has gained concentration and been of great interest for many scholars,
researchers and academicians for decades. Yet, serious focus to research and studies on politics
in organizations has emerged as a workable body of scientific inquiry just within the
approximately of past twenty years. The main idea of this research was to observe and examine
the relationship between organizational politics and employee performance. Study also
determines the impact of organizational politics on employee performance.
Consequently research examined which of the aspect of employee performance has been
significantly influenced by workplace politics. Random sampling consisted of 120 employees of
service sector who responded and data is collected primarily from questionnaires and interviews
while secondary data is investigated and researched from website material, online different
journals of human resource management, and other web sources. Results are thoroughly
analyzed through using SPSS software version 20. The analysis revealed that organizational
politics have strong relationship with employee performance and they are negatively correlated
to each other. Implications and future research directions serves as a spring board for the
researchers to for further and detailed research covering more variables and constructs of
organizational politics along with employee performance.
