Please Like Me: Ingratiation as a Moderator of the Impact of the Perception of Organizational Politics on Job Satisfaction

Triana Fitriastuti, Pipiet Larasatie and Alex Vanderstraeten
Additional contact information
Triana Fitriastuti: Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Pipiet Larasatie: Research Associate, Sustainable Business Management, Oregon State University, Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Alex Vanderstraeten: Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 14, 1-15

Abstract: Drawing from the negative impacts of the perception of organizational politics (POP) on the literature on organizational outcomes, the model proposed in this study examines a nonlinear relationship of POP on job satisfaction. In a similar way, ingratiation as a moderator variable is tested. Based on a survey of 240 state-owned enterprise employees in Indonesia, this study finds that POP exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with job satisfaction. Low and high levels of POP have a negative impact on job satisfaction. Nevertheless, our most intriguing finding is that ingratiation behavior not only strengthens POP’s effects on job satisfaction, but can also alter the direction of the relationship in which its shape is represented by a U-shape. This shape indicates that the employees who engage in high levels of ingratiation as a coping mechanism and adaptive strategy tend to do so when they perceive high degrees of POP. These results are then discussed from a cross-cultural perspective as an attempt to explain the legitimacy of ingratiation in Indonesia.

Keywords: organizational politics; perception of organizational politics; political behavior; job satisfaction; ingratiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/14/7455/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/14/7455/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:14:p:7455-:d:593153

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().