Investigating the effect of employees political skill on job performance according to the mediating role of abusive supervision variables, non-productive work behavior and intrinsic motivation (case study: Shiraz Telecommunication Company)

Ali Pirzad¹ Leila Gheisari²

1) Department of management,yasooj Branch,Islamic azad
2) PhD student in public administration, human resources major, Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch,

IOI Code : XEFD-HDHGE
Publication : Second National Conference on Social and Psychological Injuries with Emphasis on Behavioral Sciences(psysconf.ir)
Abstract :
    This research aims to investigate the effect of political skills of employees on job performance by explaining the mediating role of abusive supervision, unproductive work behavior and intrinsic motivation. The upcoming research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of survey branch. The population studied in this research includes contract employees of various organizations active in Shiraz city, of which 264 people have participated in this research, keeping in mind the rule of 5 times the number of parameters included in the questionnaire and using the available sampling method. The research tool for data collection is a standard questionnaire whose validity has been confirmed according to experts opinion and reliability by calculating Cronbach s alpha. The analysis of the research data has been done using SPSS software and testing the desired hypotheses and relationships in the conceptual model using the structural equation modeling approach and AMOS software. The obtained results indicate that political skill has a significant and negative effect on abusive supervision, while it has no significant relationship with job performance. Insulting supervision has no significant effect on job performance, but it has a positive effect on unproductive work behaviors and a negative and significant effect on internal motivation. Unproductive work behaviors have a significant and negative effect on job performance, while intrinsic motivation has a positive and significant effect on job performance. In the case of mediating hypotheses, the results show that unproductive work behaviors and intrinsic motivation play a mediating role in the relationship between abusive supervision and job performance. In addition, abusive supervision and unproductive work behaviors and abusive supervision and internal motivation play a mediating role in the relationship between employees political skills and job performance. Keywords: political skill, abusive supervision, counterproductive work behavior, intrinsic motivation, job performance.

Keywords : political skill abusive supervision non productive work behavior intrinsic motivation job performance