Abstract: Political skill is about the ability that to influence others to enhance organizational objectives in work-relevant situations, it demonstrates a significant impact on individual work performance, job attitudes, and neutralizing dysfunctional effects of stressors on strain. Perceptiveness, control, affability, active influence and development experiences can serve as antecedents of political skill, and experiential exercises, vicarious learning are important ways to develop political skill. The understanding and the multiple source measurement of the concept, and its other prospects should be noticed in the future research

Key words: political skill, organizational politics, mechanism