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TOO MUCH OF AN INEVITABLE THING: CONTEXTUAL EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON WORK TEAMS IN RUSSIA

Track: OB

Keywords: teams, political skill, perceived organizational politics, group conflict, team trust, group cohesion, MNC, Russia

The study addresses the multiple research calls to bring different levels of analysis into the investigation of organizational politics and political skill and provides contributions to both team research and to practitioners. Based on the results obtained from 28 MNC work teams in Russia, we demonstrate that perception of organizational politics sets the context for team political skill enactment. Specifically, teams perceiving organizational politics to be high have a stronger negative relationship between team political skill and group conflict. At the same time, a curvilinear relationship between team political skill, team trust, team cohesion, and organizational politics was observed.

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