title: Living with organizational politics: An exploration of employees' behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to explore the employee's perception of organizational politics, the phase that they go through while working and the ways they adopt to cope with it.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were working as employees in three automobile manufacturing companies having offices in Pune, India. They were selected via randomized quota sampling to reflect a mix of age, positions, genders and experience within the organization.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data collection was done through qualitative methods which included in-depth interviews with 26 employees. Analysis of the data was done using the coding process.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings of this study led to the emergence of four major themes i.e. (a) The Perceived threat, (b) Attitude towards players, (c) Coping Strategies and (d) Intentions to leave.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the study findings, the researcher concludes that politics is being perceived as an evil and is negatively affecting the morale of the employees. Hence, it is imperative that the organizational forerunners and department heads continue to use research findings to get to know the culture prevailing in the organization and understand the emotional status and feelings that employees develop while working in such an environment.
authors.affiliation: rajiblochandhar2000@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Rajib Lochan
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Dhar
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012919:Social Behavior; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult