Perceived Organizational Politics, Defensive Silence and Ineffectual Silence with Superior Trust as a Moderator in Indian Banking Sector

Abstract

Purpose –In organizations, different departments, teams, groups and individual compete with each other due to availability of limited resources. For obtaining the aims at any cost, organizational politics begin and employees perceive most of the time it is as a negative phenomenon. That’s why sometimes they don’t provide important information to their organization. Ultimately, it will be harmful for that organization. This study seeks to examine how perceived organizational politics impacts defensive silence and ineffectual silence with superior trust acting as a moderator in the context of India.

Research Methodology – The present research involves of Indian private sector bank’s employees above the scale 1. The sample consisted of 160 employees. The proposed model was tested using SPSS version 26. In addition, to test moderation effect MS excel was used.