Impact of Organizational Politicking on Occupational Stress, Workplace Incivility and Impression Management in Higher Education sector of Quetta, Pakistan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of organizational politicking with occupational stress, workplace incivility and impression management among the employees and instructors of universities of Quetta, Pakistan which included four major universities that is Sardar Bahadur khan women’s university, Alhamd Islamic university, university of Balochistan and BUITEMS. For this study, 111 completed surveys were obtained from various personnel using convenience sampling. In addition, the method employed for this research was quantitative. Correlation and regression analyses were then conducted using SPSS in order to determine the relationship between variables. As a result of the study, it was found out that organizational politics had a significant positive relationship with occupational stress, workplace incivility and impression management. Hence, increase in organizational politicking would enhance occupational stress in employees more as compared to workplace incivility. Furthermore, organizational politicking is important to some extent to develop impression management of employees and to secure their interest in the organization.