Purpose: The 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/approach: The “political skill” and “political will” concepts...

Commentaries have been made on the increasing influence of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. However, the role of the human resource (HR) department in this development has not been examined. This study investigates the sources of power of the HR department, and accounts for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how a cognitive process, transcendence, moderates the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) and several work outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Participants across two studies (Study 1: 187 student-recruited...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the effects of recruiter friendliness and both verifiable and non-verifiable job attributes in the recruitment process. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 498 participants watched a videoed simulation of a recruitment...