ORGANISATIONAL POLITICS AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN RIVERS STATE
Keywords:
Organisational Politics, Coalition Building, Power Play, Employee Engagement, Employee Dedication and VigorAbstract
This study examined the relationship between organisational politics and employee engagement of public universities in Rivers State. The aim of the study examine the dimensions of organisational politics as coalition building and power play and the measures of the employee engagement as employee dedication and vigor. The research design adopted for this study was the cross sectional survey research. The Population of the study was 4888 lecturers from three Public Universities in Rivers State. The sample size used was 370. Descriptive statistics using mean and standard deviation was used to analyze univariate data, Spearman’s rank Order correlation Statistics was used to analyze bivariate data and partial correlation was used to analyze multivariate data using SPSS version 22. The study revealed that there is a significant relationship coalition building and measures of employee engagement of public universities in Rivers State. There is a weak relationship between power play and measures of employee engagement of public universities in Rivers State. There is moderating role of organizational culture on the relationship between organisational politics and employee engagement of public universities in Rivers State. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that organisational correlates with employee engagement in public universities. Based on the findings of this study, the study recommended among others that collation building should be encouraged in order to secure employee dedication to the organisation.