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.
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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 Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
