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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Are proactive personalities always beneficial? Political skill as a moderator.

S Sun, HIJ van Emmerik - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Does proactive personality always enhance job success? The authors of this study draw on
socioanalytic theory of personality and organizational political perspectives to study …

Dark personality, job performance ratings, and the role of political skill: An indication of why toxic people may get ahead at work

KJ Templer - Personality and Individual Differences, 2018 - Elsevier
While toxic employees are generally not superior performers, some receive higher salaries
and advance into leadership positions. In this study, an indirect effect chain model was …

Bringing political skill into social networks: Findings from a field study of entrepreneurs

R Fang, L Chi, M Chen… - Journal of Management …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The authors integrate the entrepreneurship literature's sociological and behavioural
perspectives and examine the processes through which entrepreneurs first build social …

Exploring emotional intelligence, political skill, and job satisfaction

G Meisler - Employee Relations, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the associations between emotional
intelligence (EI) and both political skill and job satisfaction, as well as the possibility that …

Overqualified human resources, career development experiences, and work outcomes: Leveraging an underutilized resource with political skill

ZA Russell, GR Ferris, KW Thompson… - Human Resource …, 2016 - Elsevier
We argue in this paper that overqualified employees represent an underutilized human
resource that has the potential to be leveraged in impactful ways to enhance both personal …

Social influence and politics in organizational research: What we know and what we need to know

GR Ferris, PL Perrewé, SR Daniels… - … of Leadership & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This special issue of the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies addresses the topic
of “Social Influence and Politics in Organizational Research,” a topic which spans more than …