Political Skill and Career Success: A Review and Directions for Future Research

Authors

  • Muhammad Usman
  • Luo Fan
  • Muhammad Anwar-Ul-Haq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24212/2179-3565.2016v7i1p39-46

Keywords:

Political skill, Career success, General review

Abstract

The determinants of career success have been widely investigated in the extant literature.This paper aims to review the empirical studies on the role of political skill in determining careersuccess. Major data bases like science direct, emerald insight, sage and springer were searchedfor finding out the relevant studies. The findings of each empirical study along with the contextand brief methodological information have been given. Through this review, it was surfaced thatthe underlying mechanisms in the political skill-career success relationship need to be exploredfurther, and the dimensional analysis of political skill should be conducted.

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Published

2016-05-02

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016): MAR/MAY

Section

Papers

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