Page No.68-74
Monu Lal Sharma and Akbar Hussain
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
Political skill is characterized by social perceptiveness and the ability to adjust one’s
behaviour to different and changing situational needs, to influence others. Politically
skilled individuals enjoy a sense of personal security that allows them to perceive
control over the processes and outcomes of interpersonal interactions within
organisations. This enhances the sense of belonging and helps to improve business
performance, personal commitment and motivation. There is, to date, little research
concerning the relationship between political skill and professional commitment.
Therefore, the present study intended to examine the propositions dealing with the
political skill and professional commitment among the employees of public and
private sector organisations. The study was conducted on 30 supervisory-level
employees of two different sector organisations based in Delhi/NCR. Political Skill
Inventory was administered on the employees for assessing their political skill and
Professional Commitment Scale was administered on the same sample for
assessing their level of professional commitment. The finding of the research
indicated that in the public sector organisation, a higher level of political skill was
found among the employees and they also scored higher on professional
commitment, whereas private sector employees scored low on political skill and
professional commitment. However, an indirect significant relationship between
the scores of political skills and professional commitment levels was found for both
types of organisations.