Organizational Politics and Workplace Stress

Cropanzano, Russell; Li, Andrew

doi:10.4337/9781847201874.00017

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“…Hochwarter et al / Nonlinear Politics Perceptions Relationships 743 Karasek described job demands as "psychological stressors involved in accomplishing the work load " (1979: 291), which is a definition consistent with recent conceptualizations of politics perceptions (Halbesleben, Osburn, & Mumford, 2006). Moreover, politics perceptions have been associated with work outcomes at a level comparable with other adverse job characteristics (De Jonge & Schaufeli, 1998), again legitimizing its status as a job demand (Cropanzano & Li, 2006). Hence, we expect politics perceptions to operate, as would other demands, within the frameworks of both Activation and Vitamin Model theories.…”

Section: Situations Where Politics Perceptions Are Lowmentioning

confidence: 95%

Nonlinear Politics Perceptions—Work Outcomes Relationships: A Three-Study, Five-Sample Investigation

Hochwarter

Ferris

Laird

et al. 2008

Journal of Management

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This research reports the findings of three studies (involving a total of five samples) developed to explore the nonlinear relationships of organizational politics perceptions with practically and theoretically relevant work outcomes. Study 1 hypothesized a nonlinear relationship between organizational politics perceptions and job satisfaction. In Sample 1 of this study, a nonlinear relationship was identified, best depicted as an inverted-U form, and Sample 2 replicated this finding. Study 2 hypothesized a U-shaped relationship between politics perceptions and job tension, which was identified in Sample 3 and corroborated in Sample 4. In a single-sample investigation (i.e., Sample 5), Study 3 extended nonlinear conceptualizations by considering moderation (i.e., in the form of perceived resources) and, thus, the possibility of restricted nonlinearity. Results indicated that politics perceptions demonstrated a nonlinear association with job tension (i.e., U-shaped form) only for those with fewer perceived resources. For those with higher levels of perceived resources, no relationship between politics perceptions and job tension existed. Implications of these findings for scholarship and practice are offered.

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Section: Situations Where Politics Perceptions Are Lowmentioning

confidence: 95%

Nonlinear Politics Perceptions—Work Outcomes Relationships: A Three-Study, Five-Sample Investigation

Hochwarter

Ferris

Laird

et al. 2008

Journal of Management

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“…A number of reviews of negative politics exist (e.g., Allen et al, 1979;Cropanzano & Li, 2006;Fedor & Maslyn, 2002;Ferris, Adams et al, 2002;Ferris, Frink, et al, 1996;Hall, Hochwarter, Ferris, & Bowen, 2004), including recent contributions by Windsor (2016), Landells and Albrecht (2017), and Hill, Thomas, and Meriac (2016). Accordingly, we do not find it beneficial to duplicate previous discussions here.…”

Section: Negative Politics Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Power, Politics, and Political Skill in Job Stress

Rosen¹,

Perrewé²

2017

Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being

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“…This method allows for an examination of the role of appraisal at the early stages of the workplace politics ! stress process, as has been called for in the literature (Cropanzano & Li, 2006;Perrewé et al, 2012).…”

Section: The Role Of Gender In Occupational Stressmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although appraisal and negative affect activation play a central role in the stress process, they have rarely been studied (Sonnentag & Frese, 2013). And scholars have called for research examining the early stages of the stress process, specifically with regard to organizational politics (Cropanzano & Li, 2006;Perrewé et al, 2012).…”

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“…While the transactional theory of stress is often used to frame investigations in this area (e.g., Kane-Frieder, Hochwarter, & Ferris, 2014) and plays a key role in models linking workplace politics to stress outcomes (Perrewé et al, 2012), the actual mechanisms posited by the transactional theory of stress had gone untested. This is unfortunate because, as Cropanzano and Li (2006) point out, there is considerable "conceptual confusion" (p. 139) in research relating politics in the workplace to occupational stress; some researchers define stress in terms of appraisal but operationalize it in terms of strains (e.g., Rosen, Harris, & Kacmar, 2009). Even when appraisal has been measured, it has not been operationalized in terms of threat appraisal as specified by the transactional theory of stress (e.g., Webster, Beehr, & Love, 2011).…”

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“Dirty” Workplace Politics and Well-Being

Webster

Adams

Maranto

et al. 2018

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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We build and empirically test an integrative model of gender, workplace politics, and stress by integrating social role theory and prescriptive gender stereotypes with the transactional theory of stress. To examine the effect of gender on the relation between exposure to non-sanctioned political influence tactics (NPITs; e.g., self-serving and socially undesirable behaviors such as manipulation and intimidation) and stress outcomes, we employed a daily diary design with 64 employed adults over the course of 12 working days. In support of our hypotheses, exposure to NPITs-that is, "dirty politics"-elicited a threat appraisal that, in turn, related to the activation of negative emotions. Moreover, unlike men, women who reported higher levels of NPITs experienced heightened levels of threat appraisal and ultimately negative emotions. We demonstrate that pairing social role theory with the transactional theory of stress is a useful approach for researchers interested in better understanding gender differences in the occupational stress process. Anyone interested in reducing stress in the workplace is encouraged not only to reduce the occurrence of NPITs, but also to consider ways to reduce the threat associated with them, especially for women.

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Organizational Politics and Workplace Stress

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Nonlinear Politics Perceptions—Work Outcomes Relationships: A Three-Study, Five-Sample Investigation

Nonlinear Politics Perceptions—Work Outcomes Relationships: A Three-Study, Five-Sample Investigation

Power, Politics, and Political Skill in Job Stress

“Dirty” Workplace Politics and Well-Being

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