Organization Structures & Lobbies: The cause for ‘Self’

Organizations are political structures that provide opportunities to individuals as a platform for expression of individual interests and motives. Accumulation of power is here, a vehicle for transforming individual interests into activities to influence other people.

Eight major reasons why organizational politics brews

Politics in workplace is a tool to attain, retain & display perceived power. It mostly manifests itself as work-lobbies or groups which surprisingly even move within or even outside organizations as a body. Power grows tangibly & non-tangibly even as individuals compete neck to neck for a one up on one another. These factors (enumerated below) are indicative un-exhaustive list on the why of politics aka perceived power

Organizational Politics & Power – A Perspective

Power & Politics in a typical organisation seem to go hand in hand. Organizations may be seen as a cauldron of power game (or struggle) where individuals seek to thrive for their intrinsic needs, be it for social/financial security or for meeting their economic needs. It is in pursuit of such alliances (that will draw them upwards in the ladder) that individuals look at organisational relations

It can be safely assumed today that politics in organizations is a phenomenon that is not easy to escape.

The ‘Care’takers

http://www.gmtmag.com/en/18_fin_innovation_hr.php

I love it when I hear people say that HR departments exist to ‘take care’ of humans in the office place! Many of my colleagues in other functions would retort saying that HR managers only exist to make their lives miserable & the ‘take care’ part is abysmally absent. I love that one too!

Actually, in this entire conversation, what I love the most is the mystic aura that HRM is surrounded with. There is a certain awe with which people perceive us/them; no one knows why we/they exist, what they are paid for & why organizations such ‘strategic leaders’.

Fun @ Workplace :))

“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.”

Another brick in the wall.

Organizations are funny institutions. Talent is hired via a thorough recruitment process. Time & money is spent on induction & subsequent training to prepare the feed for the organizational set-up. Work requirements are identified, and fresh minds are deployed to take a relook at existing systems or at times to begin something afresh.

‘Oongli’ – The Finger

This is a little away from my usual observations at work. However, as one dwells on the ironies & purple truths of the lowly mighty finger, it is realized that given the amount of typing a ‘manager’ does in an average working day, it is at last, not too divorced from the actual work life of any human asset. As far as the title goes, its striking resemblance to bolly-wood movie titles nowadays cannot be ignored & therefore shall not be denied by the author,