Organizational politics, employee engagement and job satisfaction among Mobi Clinic employees

Abstract

The study aimed finding out the relationship between organizational politics, employee engagement and job satisfaction among employees of Mobi clinic. The study adopted a quantitative study design which was correlation in nature with a population of 80 employees. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 66 respondents from the population. Data was collected from respondents using self-administered standard questionnaire and entered in the computer for analysis through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 23. Descriptive statistics showed that (65.2 %) of the respondents were female and (34.8%) were male, majority were between 18-29 years (45.5%). Results from Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r) further indicated that there was no relationship between organizational politics and employee engagement, (r= .155, p=.213), as well as organizational politics and job satisfaction (r=.230, p=.063). However there was a significant positive relationship between employee engagement and job satisfaction (r= .354**, p=.004). Therefore, the present study provides a basis and implications for further investigation on relationship between organizational politics, employee engagement and job satisfaction among employees in different clinics in Kampala. It was recommended that administration of Mobi clinic to needs to ensure that organizational politics is well handled in order to promote employment engagement, hence enhancing their job satisfaction at work.