Impact of Organizational politics on the Proactive Behavior
through the mediating Role of the Quality of Social relationships
An analytical study on a sample of Employees Viewpoints in Karbala Cement Factory  

A Thesis Submitted to
The Board of Faculty of Administration and Economics/ University of Karbala
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master in business management science

By
Hussain Sabeeh Moheisen Al Kaabi
Supervised by
Assistant Professor Dr.
Mithaq Hatif Abid Al sada Al -Fatlawi

Abstract

           The current research study seeks to test the impact of organizational politics on the proactive behavior and to test the social relationships between the leader and the led as an intermediary between them. However it presents a theoretical framework for the organizational politics, the social relationships and proactive behavior in a sample of certain employees in  Karbala Cement Factory under the use of analytical research methodology. In order to Achieving the objectives of the research, an explicit research plan was constructed which defines the nature of the relation between the independent variable and the organizational politeness in its dimensions: general politics, progress in the future, politics of remuneration and rewards and the intermediary variable in the perfection of the social relationships: influence, loyalty, participation and professionality. In part the proactive behaviorist variable takes dimension of phonetic behavior, problem prevention, individual creativity and responsibility-taking. Is developed a set of basic and subsidiary hypotheses to determine the nature of the relationship between these variables. Such hypotheses are tested after obtaining the necessary information for the field by using questionnaire as the main tool for data collection by distributing it in a random sampling method. The researcher distributes 260 questionnaire to a number of employees in the factory in question, and 221 . Statistically, the results of the analysis reveal the availability of organizational politeness, the social relationships and the proactive behavior in the statistical programs (SPSS V.25) and Amos V.21. The results in the cement plant show that there was a correlation between the variables of the research, there is a negative effect of the politics on the social relationships and proactive behavior and the positive role of social relations comes to influence the proactive behavior and help facilitate the role of intermediary between organizational politics and proactive behavior. The research recommends that the factory administration exert itself to diligently reduce the politics of the organization and obliterate causes by doing some necessary procedures and means. Importance and attention should be given to the factory development and the social relationships. Last but not least, much shrifts and heed are to be steered to the development of the proactive behavior.

Terminological Keywords: Organizational Politics, Social Relationships, Politics  and Proactive Behavior