How important are political skills for career success? A systematic review and meta-analysis

H Chen, S Jiang, M Wu - The International Journal of Human …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Political skills are an important factor in promoting career success. Although some scholars
have paid attention to the relationship between political skills and some dimensions of …

Forty years of political skill and will in organizations: a review, meta-theoretical framework and directions for future research

LP Maher, A Ejaz, CL Nguyen… - Career Development …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the scholarship on political skill and political
will so that the authors might inspire future work that assesses these constructs individually …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Business-to-business salespeople and political skill: Relationship building, deviance, and performance

MC Good, CH Schwepker Jr - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous research has explored the role of political skill as an intra-organizational skill but
not in the context of business-to-business seller's customer relationships and sales …

[HTML][HTML] Why a lot of grandiose narcissism can be a good thing for leadership effectiveness: Political skill as game changer

F Böhm, G Blickle - Personality and Individual Differences, 2024 - Elsevier
We tested the productively tempering role of political skill, which is a developed level of
social skill and an acquired interpersonal competence, on the relation between leader …

A multi-study approach to examine the interplay of proactive personality and political skill in job crafting

J Philip - Journal of Management & Organization, 2023 - cambridge.org
The current research examines the combined role of proactive personality and political skill
in job crafting and work engagement by integrating the job demands-resources (JD-R) …

Why dark personalities can get ahead: Extending the toxic career model

M Kholin, B Kückelhaus, G Blickle - Personality and Individual Differences, 2020 - Elsevier
Low honesty-humility is a broad indicator of the common core of dark personality traits. The
toxic career model explains how dark personalities successfully climb the organizational …

Fearless dominance and leader effectiveness: A chance for excellency in leadership

HA Genau‐Hagebölling, JA Meurs… - Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We tested whether the fearless dominance trait, which originated in the psychopathy
literature and is typically presumed to relate to non‐adaptive behaviors, also can lead to …

An integrative approach to more nuanced estimates of personality–job–performance relations

A Wihler, G Blickle, C Ewen, H Genau… - Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has suggested that self‐and other‐ratings of personality may provide
different information about personality, which can be captured in the trait–reputation–identity …

[PDF][PDF] Political skill at work and in careers

I Kranefeld, G Blickle, J Meurs - Oxford research encyclopedia of …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Political skill positively associates with workplace and career outcomes such as job
performance, job satisfaction, career advancement, stress management, leadership …