Open AccessOrganizational Contexts And Political Skills: The Challenge Of Being Politically Effective
Author(s) -
Donald Martin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v2i4.6556
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , politics , perception , context (archaeology) , public relations , political science , psychology , social psychology , computer science , law , paleontology , neuroscience , biology , programming language
This essay describes three contexts in which political behavior routinely occurs in organizations. Factors contributing to participant perceptions of uncertainty in each context are described. Political effectiveness in light of contextual uncertainly is explained by integrating the self-monitoring construct.