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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"political skill"”.
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Towards the Dark Side of Political Skill: Development and Validation of the Dark Political Skill Scale
… research, I develop and validate the Dark Political Skill Scale. Intended to supplement the existing Political Skill Inventory (PSI; Ferris et al., 2005), the Dark Political Skill Scale captures the more covert and deceptive side of political effectiveness in the workplace. Across three …
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Interpersonal Political Skill as a Coping Mechanism for PreK-12 Principals
… with workplace stress. Conversely, interpersonal political skill is empirically linked to organizational success and coping with workplace stress. Therefore, the current research sought to understand how PreK-12 principals use interpersonal political skill as a coping mechanism in responding to …
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Political Skill and Teamwork: A Mixed Methods Study of Rehabilitation Professional Students
… to examine the relationship between levels of political skill and demonstration of collaborative practice, or teamwork, in rehabilitation professional students. A review of the scholarly literature on political skill revealed multiple benefits of this social skill, including enhanced teamwork. …
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Leadership and social effectiveness in sport : conceptualizations and investigation of servant leadership and political skill.
… The second purpose was to examine the role of political skill, a social effectiveness construct that measures how people influence others at work, as a possible moderator of servant leader effectiveness. Political skill comprises four dimensions: social astuteness, interpersonal influence, …
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The Relationship Between Self-Assessed Political Skill and the Individual Dispositional Factors of Age and Gender
Problem: While the impact of individual political skill on individual and organizational success is clear from the research, determining if proficiency in political skill is contingent upon the individual dispositional factors of age group and gender are less understood. If these dispositional …
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Contributors to an enterprising sex: examining the influence of creativity on entrepreneurial intentions and the moderating role of political skill controlling for gender
… for successful entrepreneurs to possess certain skills and abilities and to engage in activities that reflect their political astuteness. In addition, numerous studies have supported the importance of behavioral intentions as they relate to actions. Thus, this research endeavor focused on …
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Ethnicity and Differential Career Success
… processes. Researchers have argued that political skill may enhance individuals’ power and control over informal processes (e.g. Ferris, Davidson & Perrewé, 2005) and have also suggested, but not yet tested, that minority groups may be disadvantaged in developing these skills (Ferris, …
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What does it take to get ahead? Investigating boundary conditions in the relationships among career-related psychological needs, ingratiation and promotability
… organisation-based self-esteem (OBSE) and political skill are identified as relevant boundary conditions. Finally, this thesis draws on an attribution theory (Kelley, 1967) as an additional domain-specific theory to help explain how OBSE and political skill may contribute to the …
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What does it take to get ahead? Investigating boundary conditions in the relationships among career-related psychological needs, ingratiation and promotability
… organisation-based self-esteem (OBSE) and political skill are identified as relevant boundary conditions. Finally, this thesis draws on an attribution theory (Kelley, 1967) as an additional domain-specific theory to help explain how OBSE and political skill may contribute to the …
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The Impact of Supervisory Behavior on Permanency Rates for Foster Children in a Child Welfare Context
… and number of placements did not. Supervisor's political skill and the workers impression of the supervisor's client-centeredness were the other factors which predicted permanency. Supervisor's level of empowerment, empowering behavior, and self-assessment of client-centeredness were not …
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Counterproductive Work Behavior as Coping: An Examination of Beneficial Outcomes and Repercussions in the Workplace
… differences. In particular, I examined whether politically skill employees were more likely to benefit from CWB while escaping repercussions from the organization. Hypotheses regarding political skill were not supported.
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Formal Mentoring Advantage for Leadership Development and Thoughts of Quitting in Early Career: Mediating Roles of Leadership Self-Efficacy and Protégé’s Network
… when protégés have a higher level of political skill. The current study discusses implications for theory, research, and practice.
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WHEN LEADERS OSTRACIZE: BOTTOM-LINE MENTALITY CLIMATE AND EMOTIONAL LABOR AS PREDICTORS OF WORKPLACE OSTRACISM
… this thesis considered the moderating effect of political skill on the relationship between bottom-line mentality climate and ostracism. The hypotheses were tested using a quasi-experimental design featuring scenario-based vignettes and a cross-sectional survey instrument. Results indicated that …
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The political sophistication of district-transforming superintendents
… of this study was to explore the perceived political sophistication of two selected urban superintendents: one who transformed the school district into a significantly improved school system and the other who successfully initiated school improvement measures. It was an attempt to understand …
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Skills for developing safety climate in construction projects
… management personnel need to possess sufficient skills. Therefore, this present research has investigated the role of project management personnel s skills (comprising conceptual, human, political, and technical skills) in implementing safety management tasks and developing safety climate. This …
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Leadership styles, organisational politics and employees’ performance : the perspectives of leaders and employees from the oil and gas industry in Oman
… reconciles and refines the dimensionality of political skill as related to existing models in the field.The proposed classifications of levels, definitions, and behaviours complement and extend existing conceptualisations of both transformational leadership and organisational politics. …
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Facilitating Communication and Effective Interpersonal Relationships at Work: A Theoretical Model of Socio-Affective Competence
… to integrate research on social and emotional skills that have been linked to performance in organizations. The current research proposed the model and defined its competency areas, designed a socio-affective competence situational judgment test (SAC-SJT), identified the variables that were …
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The political philosophy of Xenophon’s Memorabilia
… problems across dialogues set in different socio–political contexts. A problem is not solved in a single dialogue; the arguments, imageries and vocabulary explored in one dialogue are re–opened, complicated and refined in diverse dramatic settings. Taking Socrates’ trial and execution as the point …