Amos Drory

TL;DR: A survey of the literature on organizational politics (OP) reveals a lack of consensus among authors on a definition of this term as discussed by the authors, and a review and discussion of the various OP definitions in an attempt to further clarify the nature of this intriguing and important field of study.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between perceived organizational politics and job attitudes and found that negative job attitudes was stronger for employees of lower status than for those of a higher status, suggesting that organizational politics has a potentially damaging effect on lower status employees who react to a climate of politics by showing increasingly negative attitudes towards the organization.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical examination of the meaning of organizational politics (OP) for human resource management (HRM) is provided, and a specific typology and model is proposed to better explain OP for HRM than current definitions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between boredom at work, personal characteristics and performance in heavy truck drivers and found that boredom was positively associated with higher mental and physical individual capacity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the meaning of the concept of organizational politics as perceived by members of organizations and found that OP is more highly associated with informal rather than formal or illegal bahaviour.