Employee’s Psychosocial Well-Being and Perceived Organisational Politics; The Moderating Role of Personality Traits

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating role of teaching faculties personality traits in the link between perceived organisational politics and their psychosocial well-being in Ghanaian public technical universities. The positivist paradigm was employed as a philosophical stance in the study, and a quantitative study technique was used. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design, and the data collection instrument used was a standardised structured questionnaire. The study's population included all academic teaching staff from five Ghanaian technical universities. In all 695 respondents participated in this study. Data was gathered through survey questionnaires, input into Microsoft Excel version 16, and analysed with SPSS version 21.0.  The study findings revealed that overall perceived organisational politics had a moderate positive impact on overall psychological well-being of respondents but this impact was not statistically significant in determining the study respondents' overall psychosocial well-being. The study again revealed that respondents who had personality traits means less than 65.90 experienced more psychosocial well-being with less perceived organisational politics, while respondents whose personality traits means were more than 65.90 in this present study experienced less psychosocial well-being. The study recommended that the existing universities status be reviewed, again that more psychologists that are clinical be recruited for the university community as a measure of support to improve staff general well-being in Ghana's public technical universities.