Political skill has been described as using human resources and manipulating social exchanges to influence group outcomes (Mintzberg, 1983). Researchers have found that political skill has significant relationships with constructs such as contextual performance, career satisfaction and leadership. Based on these empirical findings it may be beneficial to include a measure of political skill as part of a selection process. In this study, different methods were explored for measuring political skill that may be appropriate for administrative purposes such as the self-rated questionnaire called the Political Skill Inventory (PSI), a situational judgment test (SJT) and the structured interview. A sample of 100 graduate business students, most of whom had extensive managerial experience, completed the previously mentioned measures in exchange for feedback on their assessments. The participants were subsequently rated on political skill by their coworkers. The only significant association with the coworker scores was the PSI; neither the SJT nor the structured interview showed a significant relationship with the peer ratings of political skill. However, there were unforeseen technical limits to the measures that might explain the negative findings. The paper concludes with recommendations for improving the measures prior to a follow-up study.

The aim of this thesis is to first evaluate the current possibilities of students and graduates of economic fields of study in the labor market and in one particular company - Československá obchodní banka, a. s., and the second to characterize the recruitment process in CSOB. It contains also several proposals to make the process more effective. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part first examines the main trends in students and graduates business education and speaks about the issue of coming of graduates into the labor market. The following chapter deals with the personal work, specifically recruiting and selecting of company's staff. Practical part evaluates the options of cooperation for students and graduates with the Bank and presents a complete recruitment process of workers in the company. The part of this work is a survey of preferences of students and graduates in choosing first job. Based on survey results, compared with the actual activities of CSOB are formulated some recommendations.

This work is about personal management in ukrainian branch of the american company Nature’s Sunshine Products (NSP). It provides analysis of its current situation and contains suggestions to develop personal management in the company, which should help to increase its effectiveness.