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Report No: DOT/FAA/AM-92/17

Title and Subtitle: Organizational Politics, Participation in Decisionmaking, and Job Satisfaction

Report Date: April 1992

Authors: Witt, L.A.

Abstract: The study tested two hypotheses: (a) that organizational politics as measured by the Kacmar and Ferris (1991) Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale would be negatively related to feelings of job satisfaction; and (b) that participation in decision-making (PDM) would moderate that relationship. In line with concerns for dispositional affect as a contributor to method variance and the possibility that biodata may explain some of the effects of organizational politics and PDM on job satisfaction, dispositional affect and biodata variables were included in the analyses. Hierarchical moderated multiple regression analyses conducted on data collected from 1,083 Federal employees confirmed the hypotheses.

Key Words: Organizational Politics, Participation in Decision-making, Job Satisfaction

No. of Pages: 15