MGT 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Organizational Culture, Job Satisfaction, Ingratiation

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Individual factors contributing to political behavior: traits that encourage political action, high self-monitors, high need for power, situational influences leading to illegitimate political actions, lower organizational investment, greater the number of perceived alternatives, greater expectations of success. There are a number of factors that influence political behavior. These factors include individual factors such as those with high mach personalities or high expectations of success. Situational influences such as low organizational investment or high expectations of success can lead to illegitimate political actions. Organizational factors contributing to political behavior: organizational resources declining or distribution shifting, opportunity for promotion exists, organizational culture issues, low trust, role ambiguity, zero-sum reward allocation, high performance pressures, leading by poor example. As well as organizational factors such as a culture of low trust and role ambiguity. The combination of these factors will lead to political behavior which can lead to favorable outcomes such as increased rewards or decreased punishments.