The role of participation in decision-making in the organizational politics-job satisfaction relationship

The present study examined the impact participation in decisionmaking (PDM) had on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and expressions of job satisfaction among 1251 public sector employees. We hyp othesized that perceptions of organizational politics would reduce job sati sfaction and that the detrimental effect of politics on job satisfaction wo uld be weakest among workers who engage in consensus decision-making with t heir supervisors. We used confirmatory Factor analyses to determine whether the variables used in this study reflected distinct constructs. Then, we u sed correlational analysis and hierarchical moderated multiple regression a nalyses to test the hypotheses. Results indicated that the variables reflec ted distinct constructs and confirmed the hypotheses. Examination of the in teraction indicated that the effect of PDM on job satisfaction was robust a t high levels of perceived politics.