Author(s)

Jiang Caihong

Corresponding Author

Jiang Caihong

Abstract

Objective: To study whether organizational political cognition plays a role between organizational climate and employee retention, and how effective it is. Methods: 275 employees from five cities were tested with the revised organizational climate questionnaire, organizational political cognition scale and employee retention scale. Results: Organizational political cognition of intermediary variables is caused by organizational climate of independent variables. The estimated value between organizational political cognition and employee retention is 3. 314, the standard error is 0.952, and the P value is significant, which indicates that the mediating variable organizational political cognition affects the dependent variable employee retention. Conclusion: Organizational climate affects employee retention, and it is through organizational political cognition that employee retention is affected. This shows that organizational political cognition is the mediating variable between organizational climate and employee retention, and plays a part in mediating.

Keywords

Organizational political cognition; Organizing climate; Staff retention