The Relationship between Interpersonal Conflict and Job Outcomes: Exposition of the Mediating Role of Perception of Organizational Politics

The present study was conducted with the aim of studying the relationship between team leadership and interpersonal conflict and job outcomes through perception of organizational politics. The job outcomes under this study included three important and negative outcomes of job stress, workplace deviance and intention to quit. The research methodology was descriptive-survey, and Statistical population included all the employees of Gas Company of Lorestan province of Iran. In order to conduct the present study, 224 employees were selected based on Cochran formula by using simple random sampling method. The research tool was the researcher-made questionnaire, and its reliability and validity was approved. The collected data were analyzed using Spearmanʹs correlation coefficient and structural equation modelling (SEM) based on smart PLS software. The research results revealed that there is a significant and direct relationship between the perception of organizational politics and all the three job outcomes. Besides, there is a significant and direct relationship between interpersonal conflict and job outcome, and the perception of organizational politics intensifies this relationship