To what extent do work environment and personality matter? Impact of political climate and employee personality on employee’s behavioural outcomes

Drawing upon affective events theory, this study explained how organisational political climate through fear of failure affects employee behavioural outcomes, namely procrastination and submissive behaviour. The current study unpacked the combined effects of organisational political climate and impostorism on fear of failure. Using three wave and multi-sourced data (self and peer-reported) from 275 employees, this study tested the hypothesised model in public sector organisations of an under-researched country, Pakistan. After establishing the reliability and validity of research instruments, the direct and indirect effects were tested which revealed that politically driven work climate spurred employee procrastination and submissive behaviour via fear of failure. Results also indicated that the combined effects of organisational political climate and impostorism significantly moderated fear of failure. The results confirmed that impostorism moderated the mediated relationship. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.