Office politics as an element in office ecosystem

Abstract

This study has examined descriptively the difference in gender and level of designation regarding the perception on office politics. It involved 103 government officers who are in grade 41 to 52 and serve in government agencies in Northern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. They are selected by using proportionate stratified random sampling method. In measuring perception of office politics (POPS), this study has adopted (Kachmar and Carlsan, 1997) perception of politics measurement. A t-test and ANOVA have been performed to test the different of POPS between gender and levels of designation. The results showed that there were no differences on office politics perception amongst respondents regardless their gender or levels of designation. This result has carried evidences that office politics become a general phenomenon where all employees will have the same opinion on the nature and results from political game in organization.