Browsing by Author "Kacmar, K. Michele"

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Interactive Effects of Impression Management and Organizational Politics on Job Performance
(2004-08) Zivnuska, Suzanne; Kacmar, K. Michele; Witt, A.; Carlson, Dawn S.; Bratton, Virginia K.
The purpose of this research was to explore the interactive effect of organizational politics and impression management on supervisor ratings of employee performance. We hypothesized that the negative relationship between organizational politics and supervisor-rated performance is weaker among employees who are high in impression management than among those low in impression management. Data were collected from a matched sample of 112 white-collar employees and their supervisors. Results indicated that the interaction of organizational politics and impression management explained a significant incremental amount of variance in supervisor ratings of employee performance. These findings demonstrated that the extent to which an individual engaged in impression management in a non-political atmosphere may have been a key component to receiving favorable performance ratings.
Situational and Dispositional Factors as Antecedents of Ingratiatory Behaviors in Organizational Settings
(2004-10) Kacmar, K. Michele; Carlson, Dawn S.; Bratton, Virginia K.
This study examined both situational and dispositional antecedents of four ingratiatory behaviors: other-enhancing, opinion conformity, favor rendering, and self-promotion. The two situational variables (i.e., role ambiguity and leader-member exchange) and the four dispositional variables (i.e., self-esteem, need for power, job involvement, and shyness) were considered as antecedents to each of the ingratiatory behaviors. Results from a sample of 136 full-time employees suggested that each of the ingratiatory behaviors had a unique set of antecedents and that the dispositional variables explained significant additional variance beyond the variance explained by the situational variables.