Political skill as moderator of personality - Job performance relationships in socioanalytic theory: Test of the getting ahead motive in automobile sales

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 326-335

  Blickle, Gerhard ^a   Wendel, Stephanie ^a   Ferris, Gerald R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job performance; Personality; Political skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649275581     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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