“…Employees' perceptions that their organization's decision-making processes are guided by dysfunctional political games represents a significant concern, because this adverse work condition can harm the employees' mental well-being and the quality of their organizational functioning (Chang, Rosen, & Levy, 2009;Johnson, Rogers, Stewart, David, & Witt, 2017). Such a political climate notably undermines the exchange expectations that employees have in terms of how their organization should treat them (Chang, Rosen, Siemieniec, & Johnson, 2012), which might become manifest in various ways, such as when employees believe that favouritism supersedes merit, a limited number of organizational members always get their way, their employer endorses a work-behind-thescenes mentality, or people do not dare speak up for fear of retaliation (De Clercq & Belausteguigoitia, 2017;Kacmar & Ferris, 1991).…”