Καπουτσής, Ηλίας
Σαλαβού, Ελένη
Νικολόπουλος, Ανδρέας
It goes without doubt that employee performance is extremely critical to the overall success of a company. Especially nowadays when business environments are subject to rapid and enormous changes due to substantial technological evolution, due to diverse employees and to the fact that competition is fiercer than ever, it is granted that employee performance drives business performance. The success of a company is finally achieved due to a continuous setting of goals both on an individual and team level. Employees set goals in order to get things done, fulfill their obligations at work and achieve personal evolution and job satisfaction. Moreover, their goal achievement will end up helping the overall business performance and in this is way personal goal achievement is one of the most important factors in employee performance. Successful employees meet deadlines, make sales and build the overall brand name. When employees do not perform effectively, consumers are no longer interested to the company’s products or services and therefore, organizations suffer great damages and loss of earnings. The extremely important role of goals achievement is strictly connected to regulatory focus theory, which has emerged as an important construct in organizational science. This theory determines someone’s self-regulation through two kinds of focus, promotion and prevention focus and states, that according to which focus people have, they react with certain ways under specific work circumstances and follow specific strategies in order to achieve both personal and organizational goals. During the last years, science has also shown a great interest for Perceived Organizational Politics (POP), which is one of the factors that may affect employee’s positive organizational behavior. Subsequently, another vigorous discussion concerns the impact of POP. Is the impact of perceived organizational politics positive or negative? What is exactly the role that PoP plays in the relationship between regulatory focus and performance? This study aims to contribute to the literature about the effects of regulatory focus and organizational politics on employee performance by studying the connection of prevention and promotion focus with performance and the mediating role of Perceived Organizational Politics.
Αντίληψη της οργανωτικής πολιτικής
Employee performance
Perception of organizational politics (POP)
Regulatory focus