Political skill and work outcomes: A theoretical extension, meta‐analytic investigation, and agenda for the future

TP Munyon, JK Summers, KM Thompson… - Personnel …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This quantitative review explored the political skill construct and its predictive ability across a
number of organizational outcomes. First, we extended the Ferris et al. meta‐theoretical …

25 years of higher‐order confirmatory factor analysis in the organizational sciences: A critical review and development of reporting recommendations

M Credé, PD Harms - Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss how confirmatory factor analysis results should be used to examine potential
higher‐order constructs and advocate that researchers present five types of evidence, which …

Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery

R Shu, S Ren, Y Zheng - Journal of Business Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Social networking is increasingly important to entrepreneurs because it can help them to
recognize valuable opportunities. A model of entrepreneur network capability concerning …

Servant leadership and followership creativity: The influence of workplace spirituality and political skill

WA Williams Jr, RS Brandon, M Hayek… - Leadership & …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how servant leadership and political skill
combine to impact workplace spirituality and employee creativity. Design/methodology …

Understanding the soft side of software projects: An empirical study on the interactive effects of social skills and political skills on complexity–performance relationship

U Zaman, Z Jabbar, S Nawaz, M Abbas - International Journal of Project …, 2019 - Elsevier
While prior research considers project complexity as a double-edged sword, researchers
and practitioners still remain unclear whether project complexity serves as productive or …

Perceived organizational politics, emotional intelligence and work outcomes: Empirical exploration of direct and indirect effects

G Meisler, E Vigoda-Gadot - Personnel Review, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–This study aims to examine the relationship between perceived organizational
politics and emotional intelligence, and their interplay in the context of work …

A review of political skill: Current research trend and directions for future research

T Kimura - International Journal of Management Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews theoretical and empirical research on the use of political skill in
organizations and proposes some agendas for future research. Although political skill is a …

Political skill in the organizational sciences

GR Ferris, DC Treadway, RL Brouer… - Politics in …, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Three decades ago, the political skill construct was introduced to the organizational
sciences literature by Pfeffer (1981), advocating a political perspective on organizations …

Further specification of the leader political skill–leadership effectiveness relationships: Transformational and transactional leader behavior as mediators

C Ewen, A Wihler, G Blickle, K Oerder, BP Ellen III… - The leadership …, 2013 - Elsevier
The present investigation was a three-source test of the intermediate linkages in the leader
political skill–leader effectiveness and follower satisfaction relationships, which examined …

Personal initiative and job performance evaluations: Role of political skill in opportunity recognition and capitalization

A Wihler, G Blickle, BP Ellen III… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, personal initiative has been found to predict job performance. However,
implicit in this direct initiative–performance relationship are more complex process dynamics …