The first aim of this study was to test empirically the effect of HR political skill on the relationship between high involvement work practices and organizational performance. A second aim was to test empirically whether an HR executive can use their political skill advantageously within...

Increasingly, researchers are using perceptual or subjective measures of organisational performance, but our review of the literature reveals that these measures are rarely validated. We introduce Rasch model analysis to the management field and apply it to a psychometric analysis of an...