Politics as a Moderator of the Accountability—Job Satisfaction Relationship: Evidence Across Three Studies
在三项研究中考察了员工感受到的问责与组织政治感知对工作满意度的交互影响，发现当政治感知高时，问责会降低工作满意度。
The current study examined the interactive relationship between felt accountability and organizational politics perceptions on job satisfaction in three samples, which included employees in a wide array of work settings. We hypothesized that job satisfaction would decline (increase) as felt accountability became more intense for those perceiving heightened (limited) levels of politics. After controlling for demographic factors (e.g., age, gender, and organizational tenure), affectivity (e.g., negative and positive), and nonlinear main effect terms (e.g., felt accountability 2 and politics perceptions 2 ), results supported the study's hypothesized relationship. Namely, findings indicated that accountability predicted unfavorable levels of job satisfaction when coupled with heightened politics perceptions. Implications of results for theory and practice, strengths and limitations, and directions for future research are provided.