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Does Perceived Organizational Politics Mediate the Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior? Insights from Bangladesh  

AWAL, Md. Rabiul (Department of Business Administration, Bangladesh Army University of Science & Technology)
SAHA, Amitav (Department of Management Studies, University of Rajshahi)
ISLAM, Mirajul (Department of Business Administration, Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University)
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Asian Journal of Business Environment / v.12, no.4, 2022 , pp. 1-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study mainly aims to investigate the connection between job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior of bank employee. Another objective of this study is to check out the mediating impact of perceived organizational politics of bank personnel on the connection between their job happiness and citizenship behavior. Research design, data and methodology: Snowball sampling is utilized in this study, which is done among bank personnel at different public and private banks across north-eastern region of Bangladesh as well as information is accumulated through the use of a five-point Likert-scale questionnaire. IBM SPSS v22, Andrew F. Hayes process macro v3.5 and SmartPLS 3 are used to complete descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The study results explore that employees' political perception has a negative influence on organizational citizenship behavior where bank employees' job happiness has a positive impact on structural citizenship manners and negative impact on perceived organizational politics. Surprisingly, perceptions of organizational politics were found to have an insignificant mediating effect on the connection between job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusions: The present study reveals that satisfied bank personnel shows positive and constructive actions toward their organization where their political perception has an insignificant mediation.
Keywords
Organization; Politics; Satisfaction; Citizenship Behavior; Bangladesh;
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