Politische Fertigkeiten und berufliche Leistung : ein kurvilinearer Zusammenhang

In organizations, social influence attempts take place consistently. People high in political skill, which compromises networking ability, interpersonal influence, social astuteness, and apparent sincerity, are considered to be more effective at such processes. Furthermore, the construct of political skill has been linked to job performance repeatedly. Thereby, an increase in political skill should encompass enhanced job performance. However, it is herein assumed that extreme values in political skill should lead to lower job performance and more counterproductive work behavior) as compared to intermediate scores. A detailed examination of the two constructs, the “too much of a good thing” effect and other hints corroborate these conjectures. The results of two studies indicate that there is a curvilinear relationship between political skill and job performance. This holds similarly for all dimensions of job performance (task performance, contextual performance, adaptive performance, counterproductive work behavior) as well as the facet career role. It is discussed to which extent political skill or similar constructs of social effectiveness have negative influence whenever they are developed ‘too much’.

Grantor dc:publisher

Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University

Year dc:date

2009

Author dc:creator

• Zettler, Ingo

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hornke, Lutz F.

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/150
• Leistungsbeurteilung
• Psychologie
• politische Fertigkeiten
• berufliche Leistung
• kontraproduktives Verhalten am Arbeitsplatz
• kurvilinear
• political skill
• job performance
• counterproductive work behaviour
• curvilinear

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

ger

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