Investigating the Role of Psychological Contract Breach, Political Skill and Work Ethic on Perceived Politics and Job Attitudes Relationships: A Case of Higher Education in Pakistan

Hira Salah ud din Khan, Ma Zhiqiang, Muhammad Abubakari Sadick and Abdul-Aziz Ibn Musah
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Hira Salah ud din Khan: Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Ma Zhiqiang: Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Muhammad Abubakari Sadick: Department of Marketing, School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Abdul-Aziz Ibn Musah: Department of Statistics, School of Applied Science and Technology, Technical University, Tamale, P.O. Box 3 E/R, Ghana

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-21

Abstract: This study aims to investigate how a Psychological contract breach can mediate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes and how political skill and work ethic can influence the negative association between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes. A systematic sampling method was used with a sampling size of 310 faculty members of public sector universities of Pakistan. Data were analyzed by using partial least squares structural equations modeling PLS-SEM to test the hypotheses by Smart PLS software. The findings revealed that the perception of politics is significantly and negatively related to job attitudes and indirectly through psychological contract breach. Moreover, the results indicated a significant moderating effect of work ethic on the relationship between the perception of politics and job attitudes. However, political skill did not moderate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes. Moreover, research implications and limitations are elucidated.

Keywords: perception of organizational politics (POP); job attitudes; job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC); Psychological contract breach (PCB); political skill (PS); work ethic (WE) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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