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Politician personality, Machiavellianism and political skill as predictors of perfomance ratings in political roles
journal contribution
posted on 2014-07-17, 13:52 authored by Joanne SilvesterJoanne Silvester, Madeleine Wyatt, Raymond RandallRaymond RandallThis paper conceptualizes politicians as political workers. It describes a multimethod
study with two aims: (1) to determine whether politicians share a latent mental model of performance in political roles, and (2) to test hypothesized relationships between politician self-rated characteristics (i.e. extroversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, Machiavellianism and political skill) and received performance ratings from political colleagues and officers. 231 local politicians provided self-ratings on a political performance questionnaire developed following a role analysis, and standardized measures of personality. 185 also received performance ratings from colleagues (n = 749) and officers (n = 729). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of self- and received performance ratings revealed five latent factors: Resilience, Politicking, Analytical Skills, Representing People and Relating to Others. Regression analyses found that neuroticism and conscientiousness contribute to received ratings of Resilience, and neuroticism contributes to received ratings of Analytical Skills.
Funding
The authors would like to thank the Improvement and Development Agency and the Leadership Centre for their support in conducting this research.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGYVolume
87Issue
2Pages
258 - 279 (22)Citation
SILVESTER, J., WYATT, M. and RANDALL, R., 2014. Politician personality, Machiavellianism and political skill as predictors of perfomance ratings in political roles. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87 (2), pp. 258-279.Publisher
Wiley (© British Psychological Society)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013-10-09Copyright date
2014Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: SILVESTER, J., WYATT, M. and RANDALL, R., 2014. Politician personality, Machiavellianism and political skill as predictors of perfomance ratings in political roles. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87 (2), pp. 258-279, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joop.12038. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.ISSN
0963-1798eISSN
2044-8325Publisher version
Language
- en