Organizational politics and employee engagement of multinational enterprises in Nigeria: A study of multipro consumer products limited
Keywords:
Clique behavior, employee engagement, organizational policies, Supervisor political behaviour.Abstract
This research investigated the effects of organizational politics on employees’ engagement of multinational enterprises in Nigeria. This study interrogated issues and the problems associated with employees’ engagement of the multinationals enterprise in Nigeria. Organizational politics has been an ongoing issues within multinational organisation, inspect of efforts by managers of multinational organizations' to address the issues in Nigeria. This investigation made used of the survey designed method. The study analyses three formulated hypotheses with the data generated from the survey instrument. The sample sized obtained from the study population was all the three hundred (300) employees of MCPL Benin City. Census sampling technique was used. Multiple regression analysis technique was utilized to analyze the three hypotheses of the study. The results of the analysis shows that, the coefficient for SPB (B= 0.320), t-value is 3.478 and p-value is 0.001 which is less than 0.05. The study concluded that supervisor political behavior impact on employee engagement. The coefficient for clique behavior (B=0.280) the t-value is 3.182 and p-value is 0.003 which is less than 0.05 therefore, it should be concluded that clique behavior influence employee engagement. The organizational policies also presented the following information, (B=0.240), t-value is 2.478 and p-value is 0.002 which is less than 0.05 so it could be concluded that organizational policies affect employees engagement. The study then recommend that organizational policies should be re-examined such that it can be utilized as a managerial instrument for the enhancement employees engagement.
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