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 …

Organizational politics has been an oft-studied phenomenon for nearly four decades. Prior
reviews have described research in this stream as aligning with one of three categories …

This study examines the link between protean career and boundaryless career attitudes and
subjective career success. We propose that employees with protean and boundaryless …

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 …

Three decades ago, the political skill construct was introduced to the organizational
sciences literature by Pfeffer (1981), advocating a political perspective on organizations …

Social influence is one of the oldest and most researched constructs in organizational
behavior. Most research has examined the “what” and “who” of social influence behavior …

Theory suggests that thriving, the feeling of vitality and experience of learning, is in large
part determined by the social environment of employees' workplace. One important aspect of …

This study examines why and when negative workplace gossip promotes self-serving
behaviors by the employees being targeted. Using conservation of resources (COR) theory …

We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers
as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although …

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 …