ABSTRACT
It seems obvious that perceptions of organizational politics and perceptions of organizational fairness should be related. Organizational politics involves informal behaviors that are self-serving, aimed at influencing another party, and designed to promote individual goals that are not sanctioned by the organization (Drory & Romm, 1990). Politicking involves activities such as working around formal organizational rules, influencing decision makers, and obtaining special favors—that is, activities that seem to fly in the face of conventional beliefs about fairness in organizations. Both organizational politics and organizational fairness play a central role in organizational life, yet remarkably few researchers explicitly have examined the relationship between them.
