Political Skill in the Workplace: Unveiling its Impact on Stress through Emotional Reactivity and Resilience

Political skill is a set of social effectiveness efficiencies helping individuals navigate the work environment's complexities more effectively.Despite a large amount of empirical research on the importance of political skill as a coping style, the theoretical mechanism for political skill's coping effect has not been thoroughly examined.Thus, this cross-sectional study aims to evaluate empirically the role of emotional reactivity as an underlying mechanism explaining how employees with political skill cope with workplace stress.Additionally, this research examines the buffering effects of resilience on the relationship between political skill and stress and the association between emotional reactivity and stress.Data were obtained from 167 employees in various sectors in Klang Valley to support the hypotheses.The findings contribute to a better understanding of the function of political skill in stress management.