USING POLITICAL SKILL THROUGH COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION CHANNELS IN ENGINEERING TEAMS

摘要

This paper describes a research effort in progress that investigates the impact of utilizing political skill to manage members of technical or engineering teams through computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels. Specifically, we are interested in the impact that CMC has on the success of influence attempts by politically skilled team leaders on team members. We develop propositions concerning the use of political skill in CMC environments and outline a study to test these propositions. We believe that by matching the proper political skill technique to the work context, leaders will be more likely to be successful in their influence attempts.