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 …

Although the study of salesperson performance traditionally has focused on salespeople's
activities and relationships with customers, scholars recently have proposed that …

Politics in organizations is simply a fact of life. For years, personal experience, hunches, and
anecdotal evidence have supported a general belief that behavior in and of organizations is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Research question: The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive picture of
positive organizational behavior in sport organizations by better understanding sport …

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 …