“…Fourth, our focus on political skill as a single contingency factor that mitigates the indirect relationship between workplace incivility and helping behavior might be complemented by considerations of other personal factors. For example, employees' tenacity (Baum & Locke, 2004), self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997), emotional stability (Beehr, Ragsdale, & Kochert, 2015), and innovation propensity (De Clercq & Belausteguigoitia, 2017) may serve as buffers of the negative relationship between workplace incivility and helping behavior through job dissatisfaction. Moreover, studies could compare the relative strength of the buffering effect of political skill on the indirect relationship between workplace incivility and helping behavior with that of other social effectiveness variables, such as emotional intelligence, self-monitoring, or leadership efficacy (Semadar et al, 2006).…”