“…Organizational politics, in general, represents unofficial, self-serving, and sometimes behind-the-scenes behaviors to influence others, accumulate power, sell ideas, or attain predetermined objectives ( Bauer and Erdogan, 2012 ). Therefore, employees usually perceive organizational politics as unethical, unfair, and unjust behavior ( Başar et al., 2018 ; Bodla et al., 2014 ). The literature clearly indicates that perceived organizational politics (POP) is a genuine culprit of generating various negative employee outcomes ( Baloch et al., 2017 ; Karatepe, 2013 ; Landells and Albrecht, 2019 ; Saleem, 2015 ).…”