THE EFFECTS OF POLITICAL ORIENTATION ON ATTRIBUTIONS OF COWORKER SUCCESS FAILURE/

This paper explores the field of organizational politics and its appli cation to worker attributions for co-worker performance outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that worker awareness of political behaviors among their co-workers may provide additional informational cues for the attributions they form for co-worker success/failure. It is proposed in this paper that individuals maintain an orientation to ward political activity, and that orientation is a source of informati on for the determination of cause.