The Effects of Political Behavior on Organizational Change and Performance of Change

Total quality management is a new management method and it is a radical change not incremental. Organizational function and culture will be changed when implement TQM. This research is to understand relationships between political behavior and organizational change.

How does political behavior play a role on organizational change? After the surveying and analyzing, we get the results following: the perceptions of organizational politics has significantly negative relationship with \"implementing and performance of TQM\". The more perceptions of organizational politics, the worse implementing and performance of TQM.

In Study, there are three factors---\"policy of promotion and supervisor political behavior\", \"coworker and clique political behavior\" and \"not open organizational culture\" in perceptions of organizational politics. \"Policy of promotion and supervisor political behavior\" has greater effects on TQM. Organizational politics influenced TQM factors---open organization, employee empowerment, committed leadership.