Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success
Leaders’ political skill still actively been study in management area, but not much research done to investigate in education management context. Thus, this study investigated the influence of Leaders’ political skill on intrinsic career success in the context of public secondary school organizati...
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| description | Leaders’ political skill still actively been study in management area, but not much research done to
investigate in education management context. Thus, this study investigated the influence of Leaders’
political skill on intrinsic career success in the context of public secondary school organizations.
Specifically, this research investigated the degree to which three sets of predictor’s variables: leader’s social awareness, networking, and interpersonal skill that influence career success of school principals.This study involves a quantitative analysis of school principals' self-perception of their political skill, and intrinsic career success. The data was obtained through mail survey method from school principals.The response rate for the sample was 53 percent, resulting in a usable sample size of 312 participants. The
data was analyzed by using regression analyses. The findings of this study showed that Leader political skills in term of networking, interpersonal skill were positively and significantly influence intrinsic career
success.Overall, the findings of this study shows not strong evidence to support that leader’s political skill has a strong influence on the career success of school principals.This study finding has contributed to current knowledge and understanding of career success from political perspective. The results thus serve to improve organizational career planning management and can help individuals to manage their career.Finally, this article discusses the implications of the study to theory and recommendations for future
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| spelling | uum-238102018-04-02T00:27:17Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23810/ Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success Ishak, Shahibudin HD28 Management. Industrial Management Leaders’ political skill still actively been study in management area, but not much research done to investigate in education management context. Thus, this study investigated the influence of Leaders’ political skill on intrinsic career success in the context of public secondary school organizations. Specifically, this research investigated the degree to which three sets of predictor’s variables: leader’s social awareness, networking, and interpersonal skill that influence career success of school principals.This study involves a quantitative analysis of school principals' self-perception of their political skill, and intrinsic career success. The data was obtained through mail survey method from school principals.The response rate for the sample was 53 percent, resulting in a usable sample size of 312 participants. The data was analyzed by using regression analyses. The findings of this study showed that Leader political skills in term of networking, interpersonal skill were positively and significantly influence intrinsic career success.Overall, the findings of this study shows not strong evidence to support that leader’s political skill has a strong influence on the career success of school principals.This study finding has contributed to current knowledge and understanding of career success from political perspective. The results thus serve to improve organizational career planning management and can help individuals to manage their career.Finally, this article discusses the implications of the study to theory and recommendations for future research 2017-10-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23810/1/CBMM%202017%20771%20781.pdf Ishak, Shahibudin (2017) Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success. In: 4th Conference on Business Management, 29 - 30 Oktober 2017, The Gurney Resprt Hotel & Recidences Penang, Malaysia. |
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| title | Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success |
| title_full | Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success |
| title_short | Social astuteness, networking, interpersonal skill and career success |
| title_sort | social astuteness networking interpersonal skill and career success |
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