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We all know there is office politics exists between staff of company, in all departments, either your place or another, some goes on without encountering, others see it frequently.
Politics is there everywhere and organisation is no exception to it.
Politics can have below effect;
1) low Productivity
2) negative Motivation
3) Increase in staff turn over
4) Unhealthy working environment
5) No job security
Office politics are the strategies that people play to gain advantages in their works
Why work politics are inevitable:
To deal effectively with office politics and use it yourself in a positive way, you must first accept the reality of it. Once you've done this, you then need to develop strategies to deal with the political behavior that is going on around you. The best way to do this is to be a good observer and then use the information you gather to build yourself a strong network to operate in. Here are some tips:
Office Politics often circumvent the formal organization chart. Sit back and watch for a while and then re-map the organization chart in terms of political power.
Once you know who's who in the organization, you have a good idea of where the power and influence lay. Now you have to understand the social networks.
Now that you know how the existing relationships work, you need to build your own social network accordingly.
This is really an informal version of Stakeholder Analysis and Stakeholder Management. Click here to see more on this.
When you spend more time listening, you are less likely to say something that will come back to bite you later. Also, people like people who listen to them.
As you build your relationships, you need to learn to use them to stay clear of negative politicking, and also to promote yourself and your team positively. It is up to you to communicate your own and your team's abilities and successes to the right people, and you do this through positive political action. Use your network to:
Your mapping of the informal spheres of influence in the organization will have helped you to identify those people who use others for their own purposes, and not necessarily for the common good. It's natural to want to distance yourself from these people as much as possible. But what can often be needed is the opposite reaction. The expression, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" applies perfectly to office politics.
Through observation you'll learn what works in your organization's culture and what doesn't. Watch other people at work and identify successful behaviors that you can model. There are also some general standards to observe that will stop negative politics from spreading.
Positive or negative – politics happens. The philosopher Plato said, "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." And this hold true today in the workplace: If you don't participate in the political game, you risk not having a say in what happens and allowing people with less experience, skill or knowledge to influence the decisions being made around you.
Office Politics are a fact of life. Wise politicking will help you get what you want in the world of work without compromising others in the process. Learn to use its power positively while diffusing the efforts of those who abuse it.
I'll explain what is Office Politics, Georgei Assi
It is workplace politics is also known by other names like office politics and organizational politics. It is the use of power and social networking within an organization to achieve changes that benefit the organization or individuals within it. Influence by individuals may serve personal interests without regard to their effect on the organization itself.
Some of the personal advantages may include access to tangible assets, or intangible benefits such as status or pseudo-authority that influences the behavior of others. On the other hand, organizational politics can increase efficiency, form interpersonal relationships, expedite change, and profit the organization and its members simultaneously
Alhamdulillah, here in my work we dint have any politrics.
Politics in an work may causes :
1. Decrease in overall productivity
2. Affects Concentration of employees.
3. Politics leads to a negative environment at the workplace. It spoils the relationships amongst individuals. An individual playing politics at the organization is disliked by all.
4.Changes the Attitude of employees
5. Internal politics do not allow employees to give their hundred percent at work.
6. Employees indulged in politics manipulate information and it is never passed on in its desired form.
7. Superiors get a wrong picture of what is actually happening in the organization
Office politics is always there in every organisation. A healthy office politics is because of professional rivalry which is partly tolerable. On the other hand, there is a dirty office politics wherein one employee tries to show that he is better than others by hook and crook. It is a unhealthy case of administration which negatively affects the sincere employees who find their tireless efforts have no awards or recognition.
I apologize for the answer I did not know what you mean is it an external office subject to spy on workers or the Office for the politicians to work within the company and control work in the areas of personnel policy and evading work or observe that there was misuse of the work for the purpose of the enterprise demolition personal purposes
In every office there is politics. and it is bad for so many reasons some of them are already mention in the above answers
We all know there is office politics exists between staff of company, in all departments, either your place or another, some goes on without encountering, others see it frequently.
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