The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Politics and Politicians at Work

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008

Volumn 23, Issue , 2008, Pages 107-148

  Silvester, Jo ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource (HR) systems and organizational power and politics; I O psychology knowledge, methods in political selection; Lack of "dark side" political behaviour; Organizations as political arenas; Personality and politics relationship; Political candidate selection and knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs); Political Skill Inventory (PSI); Politics and human resource management (HRM); Workplace politics; Workplace politics and political skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249109961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773277.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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