Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “Pay and promotion policies are not politically applied [Pay and promotion policies items]”
- “Pay and promotion decisions are consistent with policies [Pay and promotion policies items]”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.87–0.91 across reported samples.
Sources
- Kacmar and Ferris (1991)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“No matter what internal divisions appear, power will not be far away. Chapter 4 Who does organizing serve? Any living creature gets embroiled in power struggles when needed or desired resources are limited. These conditions define competition and the exercise of relative power…”
— Organizations a Very Short Introductionmatch 54%
“Once expended, informal power is depleted and power holders must renew it or suffer the erosion of their influence. For example, a person with control over the assignment of office spaces gleans power from the control of this resource only until they make the assignments. A…”
— Organizations a Very Short Introductionmatch 48%
“In a way, satisficing involves optimization, but it is optimization that takes the costs of coming to agreement into account. When a decision falls short of the stated goal or intention of decision-makers because they find that it takes too much time, effort, or money to find…”
— Organizations a Very Short Introductionmatch 47%
Resources: Organizations a Very Short Introduction