Abstract:
The purposes of the study were to investigate: 1) the effects of the individual differences of employees on their perception of organizational politics and levels of organizational politics; 2) employees reactions to their perceptions of organizational politics; and 3) situations and antecedents from employees perception of organizational politics. The sample of this study was composed of 240 Generation Y employees. A quota sampling method was used with Japanese steel industry companies and affiliates to form the sample. A questionnaire was distributed to collect the data. The data were analyzed using: descriptive statistics, e.g. frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation; inferencial statistics, e.g. Independent Samples t-test, F-test (One-way ANOVA); and the test of Pearson correlation coefficient at the statistic significance 0.05.
The results of the study indicated that the employees reactions to questions of satisfaction, their need to remain in the organization, and their operations had no relationship with their perceptions of organizational politics, which was caused by their identity characteristics. However, because of uneasiness in work due to a lack of decision making power and the ability to make final solutions, the results revealed that anxiety and tense had relationships with the Generation-Y employees perception of organizational politics. The results indicatd a low correlation (r=0.146).
In addition, the results of the hypothesiss testing indicated that most personal factors including gender, age, levels of education, marital status, and work experience in Japanese multinational companies had no effects on employees reactions.