Perceptions of Politics and Perceived Performance in Public Sector Organizations of Karachi Pakistan

Muhammad Nadeem, Rashid Ahmad

Abstract

Human resource is the most critical source of the organization to grow, develop, progress and earn profit. Performance of the workers depends upon their perceptions, attitude, and behavior about organizations. Politics in the organizations affect the performance of the workers. Job stress increases due to organizational politics. This paper is an effort to measure the effect of organizational politics on employee’s performance in the public sector organizations of Karachi, Pakistan. A self-administered questionnaire is used to gather the data. Questionnaire was floated in the public sector organization of Karachi Pakistan. The analysis of our results shows that there is negative association between organizational politics and performance of the worker. Performance of the worker increases rapidly in the politics free working environment.