“…Despite the assertion that political skill is an important predictor of managers' career success (Mintzberg, 1983;Pavett & Lau, 1983;Pfeffer, 1981), a number of gaps in the literature exists that need to be addressed. First, the preponderance of political skill research has treated the construct as unidimensional (e.g., Blickle et al, 2008;Harris, Kacmar, Zivnoska, & Shaw, 2007;Jawahar, Meurs, Ferris, & Hochwarter, 2008;Semadar, Robins, & Ferris, 2006;Treadway, Ferris, Duke, Adams, & Thatcher, 2007), and past research that has treated political skill as a multidimensional construct has reached conflicting conclusions regarding which political skill dimensions matter the most (e.g., Ferris et al, 2005;Todd, Harris, Harris, & Wheeler, 2009). The conflicting findings, however, may be a methodological artifact as these studies have relied exclusively on correlations and multiple regression analyses; unfortunately, these methods have been shown to produce inadequate indices of the relative importance of variables (Krasikova, LeBreton, & Tonidandel, 2011).…”