Organizational Politics and Stress: Perceived Accountability as a Coping Mechanism

Abstract

This paper investigates the interaction of perceived accountability on the politics perceptions-job stress relationship. From a sample of working adults, findings indicate that (1) individuals perceiving organizational politics and high levels of accountability reported more quality concern stress and job vs. non-job conflict, and (2) individuals perceiving organizational politics and low levels of accountability reported less quality concern stress and job vs. non-job conflict. Analysis failed to support two of the four interactive hypotheses. Theoretical implications and future research directions are discussed.