The Study Of Employees' Political Skill In Organizations And Its Correlations

This research disscussed the structure of political skill of employees in organizations in China,using positive method of psychology.Especially,based on literature studying,we collected scale items by interview and open-questionnaires, which formed the initial scale.After giving out 500 questionnaires,we got a forth-dimension structure of political skill in organizations by exploratory factor analysis and we tested the structure by confirmative factor analysis.We also discussed the relationship between political skill and work satisfication and the relationship between political skill and work performance.At last,the influence of demographics was tested on the forth factors.The results show that:(1) Political skills of employees in organizations is made up of forth dimensions:political astutens,interpersonal influence,networking ability, coordinate ability.(2) Political skills of employees in organizations in various dimensions,including political astutens,networking ability and coordinate ability are significant positive predictive power to work satisfiction and work performance.(3) There are significant differences on various dimensions of political skills in organizations among different academic levels,marriage,different ages,different job ages,different job ranks and types,different company types and forms of employment. Instead,no significant differences between genders.