Organizations are comprised of a myriad of individuals with different perspectives,rnassumptions, experiences, personalities, agendas, goals, and ambitions. It is essential thatrnindi viduals should develop the skills appropriate to effective work with people to achieverndesired outcomes. Absent of these ski lls and insights, individuals will fail to develop therntype of influence necessary to bring about long-term systemic change. On the other hand,rnmodern organizations searched for better efficiency and effectiveness in organizations inrnorder to successfull y respond to the increasing demands of their stakeholders. But, therernis an indication of decline in organi zational productivity and outcomes in both thernbusiness and the public sector. Organi zational politics seems to account at least for somernof these problems. As a result organi zational scienti sts and researchers are asked to digdeeprnin to the nature and perception of organizational politics.rnThe study attempted to examine the predictors of employees' perception ofrnorgani zational politics in the work place. The research setting of this study is AddisrnAbaba Uni versity. It is one of the oldest and biggest Universities in the land of Africa,rnwhich contributed a lot to the nation by producing qualifi ed and competent students atrnundergraduate, graduate and doctorial level. However, the University at this time is notrndoi ng as expected. The 0pp0l1unity whi ch is found in this University; therefore, helps thernresearcher to dig-deep in to examine the concept 'organi zational politics' lOP) as it isrnpercei ved by employee of AA U towards the organizational processes such as promotionsrnand transfers, hiring, pay, resource allocation , delegation of authority, interdepartmentalrncoordination, personnel policies, di sciplinary penalti es, as political or not.