Workplace Conflicts and its Effect on Employee Productivity: A Mediating Role of Workplace Politics

Some recent observers noticed that employee productivity nearly on all kind of organizations is diminishing on a day-to-day basis, particularly in the field of education. The researchers found a number of factors that affected the productivity of employees. One of the major factor contributing to the productivity of employees is workplace conflicts. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to examine the workplace conflicts and its effect on the employee productivity. This research also examined a mediating role of workplace politics between the workplace conflicts and employee productivity among the members of the faculty of general public universities of Rural Sindh. Stratified sampling technique was used to collect the data from concerned population by using structured questionnaire. To achieve the goals of study different statistical techniques were used by using SPSS. Reliability test was used to check the data reliability. Furthermore, regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between workplace conflicts and employee productivity. The finding of this test showed that the relationship between workplace conflicts and employee productivity is negative. For regression analysis, macro process tool was used to investigate that whether workplace politics mediates the relationship between workplace conflicts and employee productivity. The finding of this test showed that workplace politics significantly mediates the relationship between workplace conflicts and employee productivity.