MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BELONGING IN THE EFFECT OF DARK TRIAD PERSONALITY FEATURES ON CAREER PLANNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS

Year 2023, , 112 - 145, 26.06.2023

Onur Kavak , Erdoğan Kaygın

https://doi.org/10.36543/kauiibfd.2023.005

Abstract

Karanlık üçlü kişilik özellikleri olarak adlandırılan narsisizm, makyavelizm ve psikopatinin, çalışanların kariyerlerine yönelik planlamaları, örgüte yönelik aidiyet algıları ile örgütsel siyaset algıları noktasında güçlü bir etkiye sahip olacağı, ilgili alan yazında yer alan araştırmaların ortaya koydukları bulgular doğrultusunda öngörülmüştür. Bu doğrultuda yapılan bu çalışmanın amacı; çalışanların karanlık üçlü kişilik özelliklerinin, örgütsel siyaset algılıları ve kariyer planları üzerindeki etkisinde, örgütsel aidiyetin aracı rolünü tespit etmektir. Çalışmanın örneklem grubunu Kafkas Üniversitesinde, farklı alan ve unvanlarda görev yapan 402 akademisyen oluşturmaktadır. Katılımcıların araştırma konuları kapsamında görüşlerine ulaşabilmek üzere düzenlenmiş ve toplam beş bölüm, 79 sorudan oluşan ölçekten elde edilen veriler, çeşitli istatistik programları ile analize tabi tutulmuştur. Araştırma sonucunda, akademisyenlerin sahip oldukları karanlık üçlü kişilik özelliklerinin, kariyer planlamaları ve algıladıkları örgütsel siyaset üzerinde etkili olduğu ve örgütsel aidiyetin her üç değişken üzerinde de anlamlı bir aracı etki oluşturduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Karanlık Kişilik, Kariyer Planlama, Örgütsel Siyaset, Örgütsel Aidiyet.

MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BELONGING IN THE EFFECT OF DARK TRIAD PERSONALITY FEATURES ON CAREER PLANNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS

Abstract

It has been estimated that narcissism, machiavellism and psychopathy, named as the dark triad personality traits, will have a strong effect upon career planning of the employees, their sense of belonging to the organization and their perceptions of organizational politics in accordance with the findings in the literature. In this respect, the present study mainly aims to determine the mediating role of organizational belonging in the effect of employees' dark triad personality traits upon their perceptions of organizational politics and career plans. The participants of the study consist of 402 academicians who work in different fields and possessing different titles at Kafkas University. The data which were obtained from the scale consisting of five sections and 79 questions were analyzed through different statistical programs. The results of the study indicated that the dark triad personality traits of the academicians were effective upon their career planning and perceived organizational politics and organizational belonging had a significant mediating effect upon all three variables.

Keywords

Dark personality, personality traits, career planning, organizational politics, organizational belonging

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