The Effect of Emotional Intelligence and Political Skill on Organizational Citizenship Behavior with Job Involvement as Mediating Variable

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of emotional intelligence and political skill on organizational citizenship behavior with job involvement as mediating variable at PT. Angkasa Pura II (Persero) Minangkabau International Airport Branch, Padang. This study uses quantitative descriptive method with primary and secondary data obtained through observation, interviews, and questionnaires to 125 employees as respondents. The data will be analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling using software Partial Least Square. The result shows that emotional intelligence and political skill have positive and significant effect on job involvement. Job involvement, emotional intelligence, political skill also gives positive and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Job involvement plays mediating effect emotional intelligence on organizational citizenship behavior and it is positively and significantly correlated. Job involvement also plays mediating effect political skill on organizational citizenship behavior with positive and significant effect. The previous study only focuses on the direct effect of emotional intelligence and political skill on job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior or the effect of job involvement on organizational citizenship behavior. But, a few has studied the indirect effects of emotional intelligence and political skill effect on organizational citizenship behavior. This is the first study to investigate job involvement as mediating variables that play the effects of emotional intelligence and political skill on organizational citizenship behavior.

Organizational Politics and Job Satisfaction: Mediation and Moderation of Political Skills

“…Organizational politics and political skills always occur in all organizations in various sectors, including in Indonesia. However, the practice is higher in public sector institutions (Hadi & Yulianti, 2019;Muhammad & Muhammad, 2017) than in the private ones (Herawati & Sulastri, 2019). On this basis, organizational politics research in relation to political skills and job satisfaction in the Ternate City government also needs attention.…”