Relationship between Perceived Organizational Politics, Supportive Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction in Thai Higher Education Sector

Abstract

Faculty job satisfaction is undoubtedly important to provide quality education to the future graduates of the country. Supportive organizational climate and perceived organizational politics have huge impact on job satisfaction. Keeping that in mind this study explores the job satisfaction and its relationship with perceived organizational politics and supportive organizational climate. Sample of this study includes 105 faculty currently teaching in three different private higher education institutes in Thailand. Result of the study shows that faculty job satisfaction has significant positive relation with supportive organizational climate and significant negative relation with perceived organizational politics. However, no role of supportive organizational climate is found on job satisfaction-POP relationship.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n5p396