“Workplace Politics in Educational Institutions: An Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) Analysis”
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Abstract
Objective: The focus of this research is on many-sided dimensions of work-based politics in university institutions and schools’ approach through institutional and symbolic. The Study aimed to realign the factors and people influencing political status emerging in workplace and check out drawbacks of political formation that can mislead employee interest and performance development.
Importance: Institutions of learning, though they are mostly given credit for being the knowledge banks, are not the true political-free zones and can be prone to political agendas and workplace politics. Even ‘power game’ and ‘good old boy system’ can be easily subsumed in learning institution. These issues can impair employee well-being as well as organize outputs.
Method: This study used a method called Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to explore key factors in organizational politics. First, the study identified important variables through literature review and 10 expert interviews and defines how these variables influence each other. These relationships are categorized and displayed in a matrix.
Results: By performing the ISM Analysis, this study aims at identifying and classifying the key characters, which is the powerful as well as the confirmatory which probe into the possible consequences. The study examined thirty causal factors affecting organizational politics. Experts were interviewed to understand how these factors influence each other by using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and a Cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) analysis and to ascertain the interrelationships between the causal factors.
Future Implications: This investigation allows access the organizational political behavior in educational settings, which is a beginning of a further studying and creation of the workplace where each person would feel one with the environment through focusing intervention on problematic areas.