The influence of a leader’s perceived organisational politics on employee behaviours and the moderating effect of cultural intelligence

• Main Author: Pienaar, Stephanus De Wet
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2017
• Subjects: Leadership > South Africa; Business and politics > South Africa; Organizational behavior; Diversity in the workplace
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14488

Modern day workforces are governed by political environments which are a precursor to the formation of perceptions that are generated by employees regarding their leader’s political activities. These perceptions include the views that leaders more often than not indulge in self-seeking political behaviour. Employees who are forced to deal with these politically charged environments often find that their perceptions dictate their respective behaviours as their ethical beliefs and values are continuously challenged by leaders who abuse their authority in an attempt to promote personal gain. South Africa is known for its diverse workforce and tense political environments and cultural intelligence is an aspect that could well enhance the employee / employer relationship. It is felt that a leader’s cultural intelligence could be instrumental in moderating employee perceptions of organisational politics and their respective behaviours. It is against this backdrop that an empirical study was formulated by making use of a hypothetical model for the purposes of extrapolating evidential data required to draw conclusions and make recommendations to leadership regarding the impact that perceptions of organisational politics might have on employee behaviours and to test whether or not cultural intelligence has a moderating effect on these relations.