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Improving Business-to-Business Relationship Quality Through Salespeople’s Grit and Political Skill

Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 2022
Purpose Two characteristics – Grit and Political Skill – appear to offer meaningful value to industrial marketers through improving customer relationship quality.
Charles H. Schwepker, Megan C. Good
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Selling your network: how political skill builds social capital and enhances salesperson performance

, 2021
Research suggests that political skill affects how salespeople build and leverage social capital. However, there are important questions left unanswered in this relationship. First, although it is linked to specific structural characteristics of networks,
T. Munyon   +5 more
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The Effect of Political Skill on Relationship Quality in Construction Projects: The Mediating Effect of Cooperative Conflict Management Styles

Project Management Journal, 2021
Negative consequences can arise if interpersonal conflicts in construction projects are not handled properly. This study aims to investigate the relationship among political skill, cooperative conflict management styles, and relationship quality ...
De-Dong Wang, Yang Liu
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Forty years of political skill and will in organizations: a review, meta-theoretical framework and directions for future research

Career Development International, 2021
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the scholarship on political skill and political will so that the authors might inspire future work that assesses these constructs individually and in tandem.Design/methodology/approachThe “political skill ...
Liam P. Maher   +3 more
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A Forum on the Politics of Skills

ILR Review, 2022
The ILR Review invited this group of scholars who work within the fields of sociology, history, and urban planning to share their perspective on the politics of skills. We called on their expertise to draw attention to the politics that drive the definition and development of skill and its use in shaping the rights and voice of workers.
Paul Osterman   +5 more
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Influence of salesperson political skill: improving relationship building and reducing customer-directed deviance

, 2021
The purpose of this research is to understand the use of political skill (PS) in the context of business-to-business seller’s relationship building and ethical decision-making.
Charles H. Schwepker, Megan C. Good
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political Selection in the Skilled City [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This paper studies the impact of citizens’ human capital on the characteristics of elected politicians in democratic elections for the post of mayor. By using a change in the rules for Italian mayoral elections and a difference-in-differences estimator, I find that cities endowed with a larger amount of human capital tend to elect mayors that have a ...
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Political will, political skill, and political behavior

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2005
The current study used Mintzberg's (1983) conceptualization of political will and political skill to evaluate the predictors and consequences of political behavior at work. As elements of political will, we hypothesized that need for achievement and intrinsic motivation would predict the use of political behavior at work.
Darren C. Treadway   +3 more
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A multi-study approach to examine the interplay of proactive personality and political skill in job crafting

, 2021
The current research examines the combined role of proactive personality and political skill in job crafting and work engagement by integrating the job demands-resources (JD-R) model and trait activation theory. Self-reported survey responses collected
Jestine Philip
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Managerial political skill and achieved supply chain integration: the mediating effects of supply chain orientation and organizational politics

, 2021
Purpose Drawing on social exchange theory, social capital theory, and perspectives of political influence in organizations, this study develops and tests a model in which managerial political skill is associated with internal, supplier and customer ...
Jeffrey R. Bentley   +2 more
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