The Effect Of Organizational Climate On Perceived Organizatonal Politics: A Research In Public Sector

The purpose of this study is to determine and reveal the hypothesized causal and correlational relationship between organizational climate and perceived organizational politics. To this end, a questionnaire form comprising of the measurement instruments and demographic questions were applied to 264 public sector respondents working in Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir provinces. The collected data were analysed via IBM SPSS 20.0 for Windows. The measurement items were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory- first and second order- factor analyses subsequent to the reliability analysis in terms of face, content and construct validity (p < ,05). Correlations and regression models were conducted through the latent variables acquired from the factor analysis. Correlation analyses demonstrated significantly negative high-level of correlations among organizational climate and subscales, and organizational politics and subscales. Regression analysis resulted in a model whereby almost 50 % of the explained variance in perceived organizational politics is accounted for by organizational climate. Demographic-wise, the respondents differed in terms of their mean level of organizational climate and perceived organizational politics according to age, educational level and tenure. No difference was discerned regarding the gender variable.