What is the relationship, ifany, between affective commitment and organizational politics? How do these two factors affect overall company performance? The main objective of this paper is to identify the influence of organizational politics on the organizational performance of the company and to find the possible influence, within the same relationship, of affective organizational commitment. We therefore designed an empirical study and applied a survey in 134 Mexican SMEs involved in footwear manufacturing. Our research indicates a strong relationship between affective commitment and organizational outcome. The literature warns about the negative influence of playing politics on overall company performance, but we found that organizational politics combined with affective commitment does not affect organizational performance and could even represent a new tool in achieving better organizational commitment.
