The motive behind the study is to assess that how employees’ performance is influenced by
organizational politics and it also aims to evaluate the potential mediation of emotional
intelligence between them. Total 292 employees from the banking sector of Pakistan
completed self-report questionnaire contains Wong and Law’s Emotional Intelligence Scale;
Kacmar’s Perception of Organizational Politics Scale and William’s Task Performance Scale,
Dalal’s Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counter Productive Work Behavior Scale for
job performance. Baron-Kenny model was used to test mediation supplemented by Sobel test
to find its significance. Results indicate that emotional intelligence significantly partially
mediates between politics and performance having a significant negative relationship. Study
suggests managers to assess political behaviors (which affect the performance of employees)
and design emotional intelligence training to reduce their negative relationship. The study
witnessed new empirical insight about the interplay of politics-performance and how
emotional intelligence mediates their relationship.
Jamil Ahmad, Maryam Saeed Hashmi, Hafiz Muhammad Wagas Akhtar. (2016) Effect of Organizational Politics on Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence, , Volume-10, Issue-1.
