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Akbar Pahlevi, Rio Dhani Laksana. (2022). The Influence of

Organizational Politics on Organizational Commitment and Job

Satisfaction and Its Influence on Organizational Citizenship Behavior.

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INTRODUCTION

Organization is a collection of several different and unique people to achieve

certain goals. The uniqueness of these different individuals raises important things in the

organization, such as power, politics, and conflict. Politics in the realm of an organization

or company is the ability to change the organizational situation. (Wright, 2017) argues

organization.

In addition, (Cohen, 2016) argue that organizational politics is related to behavior

to save personal interests or certain groups within the organization and sometimes these

interests conflict with the interests of the organization itself. So, the number of

individuals who gather in the organization is directly proportional to the number of

interests in the organization (Organization, 2007). The number of different interests of

individuals and certain groups will have an unfavorable impact on the existence of the

organization. The more individuals who prioritize their interests, the more the goals of the

organization will be neglected. A leader must be able to regulate politics within the

organization in order to compete with other organizations

(Smircich, 2017) which states that job satisfaction has a positive effect on OCB but

organizational commitment has no effect on OCB.

Several previous studies have examined the path of the influence of

organizational politics on organizational attitudes which then affect OCB. (Keohane,

2017) argue that organizational politics has a negative effect on organizational

commitment. However, (Baran, 2019) actually argue that the higher the organizational

politics, the higher the organizational commitment. Meanwhile, organizational politics

has a negative effect on job satisfaction. Due to the phenomena that occur and the

differences in results in several studies, organizational politics has become an interesting

topic to study. This study examines organizational politics and its effect on commitment

According to Arikunto (2013: 95) if the number of the population is less than 100, it

small, less than 30 people, or research that wants to make generalizations with very small

errors, the research used is population research.

The data collection technique used in this study is to use a questionnaire and use

measurements with a Likert scale where the questions in the questionnaire are made in

the form of statements using a scale of 1-5.

This study uses a Partial Least Square (PLS) approach to analyze the data. PLS is a

variant-based SEM statistical method designed to solve multiple regression when there

are specific problems with the data, such as very small research sample sizes, missing

data (missing values) and multicollinearity (Jogiyanto and Abdilah, 2009:11).

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A. Result

can be concluded that the instrument in this study can be used correctly regarding the

measurement of concepts in the model studied.

composite reliability value exceeds 0.7. So, it can be concluded that the construct is

reliable. With the fact that all constructs can be used to measure variables, the analysis

phase of hypothesis testing can be used.

Table 4. Hypothesis testing

Job Satisfaction

than 0.05.

on organizational commitment (0.000), this means that the higher the organizational

politics in the company, the commitment of the sales force will decrease (Eliyahu, Bibu,

uncomfortable. This will result in a decrease in organizational commitment (Gilbert,

Krush, Trainor, & Wayment, 2022).

This shows that if organizational politics gets stronger, employee satisfaction will

decrease (Erkutlu & Chafra, 2016). This result is in accordance with the research of Ferris

and Kacmar (1992) which states that organizational politics will reduce job satisfaction.

Supported by several other studies which have found that organizational politics has a

negative effect on job satisfaction (Saleem, 2015).

cooperation with co-workers. If one coworker is too self-absorbed, other salespeople will

be displeased. The same thing happens when the leadership conducts organizational

politics it will make the sales force below him feel pressured thereby reducing the work

effect on OCB. This contradicts the research of Cropanzano et al. (1997) Bakhshi et al.

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OCB with (0.004). This means that if the political construct of the organization is

increasingly felt in the company, the OCB behavior will decrease. These results are

consistent with the research of Chen and Indartono (2011) who found that organizational

politics has a negative effect on organizational commitment. If some parties such as

leaders are too concerned with their own profits without paying attention to the interests

of employees, then employees will naturally feel reluctant to be loyal voluntarily (Ward,

2016).

which will increase the Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the sales force.

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