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 …

A high level of perceived organizational politics can lead to adverse consequences for the
organization. This article examines the impact of perceived organizational politics on …

Integrating two social-interaction-based perspectives (ie, vertical vs. horizontal social
interactions) on political skill, the current research examined how organizational newcomers …

Purpose Political skill is a valued resource employees use to achieve success. Earlier
research has mostly focused on the effect of political skill on others rather than on the self of …

Self-Serving leadership is a global phenomenon and requires both literary and practical
attention to understand how it unfolds and impacts organizations. More specifically the …

By drawing on social exchange theory, we developed a theoretical model to explore the
effect of political skill on unethical pro-supervisor behavior (UPSB) via leader–member …

Does work politics get in the way of nurses' passions even when mired in a global
pandemic? To address this question, we examined the nonlinear associations of general …

Counterintuitive to the generally prevailing positive view of political skill, we suggest that this
social competency also has the potential to foster dysfunctional outcomes for organizations …

The interpersonal deviance (ID) literature has mainly relied upon the conservation of
resource (COR) theory that explains the dissemination of stressful cues. While literature …

Organizational citizenship behavior is one of the critical determinants of institutional
success. This study examined the effect of organizational politics and human resource …