Impact of Determinants Causing Organizational Politics: A case of private banks in Larkana, Pakistan.

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 0 - 0, 01.06.2013

Wasim Abbas Awan Abdul Salam

Abstract

Özet: This quantitative research aims to study organizational factors of power and politics impacting job satisfaction. Politics have remained an integral part of every organization and satisfaction is the greatest concern of contemporary employee to strive for. These both possess a causal relationship between each other. For examining their impact in private banks of Larkana a survey research using simple random sampling is conducted to gather data. The result exposes to have an impact of independent variables over dependent variable. Finally, conclusion was drawn and recommendations were made to escalate job satisfaction to attain greater retention in banks of Larkana, Pakistan.

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