There is evidence that many UK managers feel they have insufficient political skills to manage the changes and organisational pressures they face (Charlesworth et al, 2003). Why is this, and how have leaders learnt the political skills they do have? What has proved most and least effective, and what can be done to improve them?
METHODOLOGY Literature review, followed by focus groups with senior managers and then a web-based questionnaire survey, to which 1,495 members of the Chartered...