The personal initiative paradox: why benevolent political will decreases career growth prospects in a political environment?

IF 1.6 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Evidence-based HRM-A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.1108/ebhrm-08-2022-0204
Roopa Modem, Sethumadhavan Lakshmi Narayanan, Murugan Pattusamy, Nandan Prabhu
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Purpose This study addresses a central research question: Does employees' personal initiative, with a benevolent political will, lead to career growth prospects in a work environment replete with perceived organizational politics? Drawing upon self-determination, signalling, and social cognitive theories, the authors examine how perceptions of organizational politics operate to limit the influence of benevolent political will – induced personal initiative on career growth prospects. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts a quantitative research design. This multi-wave, multi-sample and multi-source investigation includes 730 subordinate-supervisor dyads from India's information technology, education and manufacturing companies. The sample comprises 236 full-time faculty members from higher educational institutions and 496 mid-level managers from technical and service departments of information technology and manufacturing companies. Findings The results indicate that benevolent political will is significantly related to career growth prospects. In addition, perceptions of organizational politics shows a crossover interaction effect. The findings reveal that the indirect relationship between benevolent political will and career growth prospects changed significantly from those with a low perception of organizational politics to significantly negative among those perceiving organizational politics as high. Practical implications This study provides several implications for practice regarding personal initiative, benevolent political will and perceptions of organizational politics. Originality/value The significant contributions of this study are to provide new insights into the relationship between benevolent political will and career growth prospects and to unravel the paradoxical nature of the personal initiative phenomenon.
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个人主动性悖论:为什么善意的政治意愿会降低政治环境中的职业发展前景?
本研究解决了一个核心研究问题:在一个充满组织政治的工作环境中,员工的个人主动性和善意的政治意愿是否会导致职业发展前景?利用自我决定、信号和社会认知理论,作者研究了组织政治的感知是如何运作的,以限制仁慈的政治意愿对职业发展前景的个人主动性的影响。本研究采用定量研究设计。这项多波、多样本、多来源的调查包括730名来自印度信息技术、教育和制造业公司的下级主管。样本包括236名来自高等院校的专职教师和496名来自信息技术和制造企业技术和服务部门的中层管理人员。结果表明,善意的政治意愿与职业发展前景显著相关。此外,组织政治认知呈现跨界互动效应。研究发现,慈善政治意愿与职业发展前景之间的间接关系从组织政治感知低的显著变化到组织政治感知高的显著负相关。本研究对个人主动性、善意政治意愿和组织政治感知的实践提供了几点启示。本研究的重要贡献在于为善意的政治意愿与职业发展前景之间的关系提供了新的见解,并揭示了个人主动性现象的矛盾本质。
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