A Study on Impact of Organizational Politics Mitigating Employee Turnover Intentions and Well-Being: Ethical Leadership as a Solution in the IT Industry of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Organizational politics in general is a very serious construct in organizations, has a dual nature includes both self-serving behaviors and goodwill plays a significant role in explaining employees attitudes and organizational outcomes. This can play a role in employee turnover intentions and well-being in high-pressure work environments like the IT sector. This research aims to explore the associations among organizational politics, turnover intentions, and well-being from the perspective of the IT sector in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's fastest growing technology-oriented sectors. It also explores the moderating role of ethical leadership to reduce the effect of these impacts.

Workplace dynamics are greatly affected by organizational politics and the relationship between politics itself and the satisfaction, productivity, and well-being of the employees. Drawing on an important sector that is rapidly growing, extremely competitive and high attrition environment, this study investigates how organizational politics can simultaneously influence employee turnover intentions and employee well-being in the IT sector in Uttar Pradesh. The findings of the study show that where the mediation of organizational politics on the relationship of corruption and creativity exists, ethical leadership can moderate the relationship as a possible buffer on the detrimental effects of organizational politics on creative output. Using a sample of 300 employees from the IT industry, the data were collected via structured questionnaires using validated scales for organizational politics, ethical leadership, and turn over intentions, and well-being. We found positive relationships between organizational politics and turnover intentions, and negative relationships between organizational politics and well-being. The connections mediated by the quality of leadership over and above ethical leadership which serve as a buffering effect for employees to recover and stay away from employee turnover. Here, the study bridges the gap across theory of organizational behavior and practical implications for the HR practitioners and organizational leaders operating in IT domain in Uttar Pradesh.