Mediating role of perceived organizational support in relations between organizational politics with job stress, job satisfaction and job performance

Perceptions of organizational politics and political behavior are common and conventional phenomena in every organization and can affect the outcome of the job. considering the significance of satisfaction, performance and stress structures in the workplace, the present study aim was assessment the mediating effect of perceived organizational support (pos) on relationship between politics perceptions with work outcomes (stress, job satisfaction and job performance). a sample consisting of 250 employees welfare was chosen using random simple sampling and morgan table. the present study was based on the practical purpose and descriptive method. the data were gathered through ferris and kacmar standard questionnaires of politics perceptions, brayfield and roths job satisfaction, paterson job performance, house and rizzo stress and eisenberger and et al perceived support. the results showed that organizational politics perceptions bear a positive and significant relationship with job stress. the results also showed that the relationship between organizational politics perceptions and stress, job satisfaction and job performance is mediated through perceived organizational support. in the concerned model all regressive weights – except the relationship between politics perceptions and job satisfaction and job performance – were statistically significant.