Influence of Employees’ Perception of Politics on the Job Attitude of the employees in Banking Sector-An Indian Perspective

Prevalence of Employees’ perception of politics in new private sector banks and public sector banks was studied in an Indian context.. This study is an exclusive contribution with eight variables at the same time to find the influence of organizational politics on the job attitudes like Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement, Organizational Commitment which in turn led to outcomes like Job Anxiety, Job Burnout, Turnover Intention and Absenteeism.

472 samples were selected by multistage random sampling probability method from 8 public sector banks and 5 new private sector banks in a metropolitan city Chennai. Findings-Perception of organizational politics was found more among public sector employees than new private sector employees. Organizational politics strongly influenced the job attitude of employees and led to outcomes like job anxiety, burnout, turnover intention and absenteeism in work place. to have a strong correlation with emotional intelligence. The employees’ perception of organizational politics was profound among public sector bank employees rather than new private sector bank employees.

Close management monitoring and care should be given to ensure that employees’ are taken care from being affected by the politics that disturbed people in the workplace.

This research is a rare Indian study that has tested eight variables at the same time for its relationship with one another. This study compared the major political practices between the bank employees and discovered that politics existed among a particular set of employees.