Workplace Politics

About Workplace Politics

✴Office politics arises when employees tend to misuse their power to gain undue attention and popularity at the workplace.✴

► Employees indulge in work politics simply to tarnish their colleague’s reputation to obtain advantages and come in the good books of their superiors. If you really have the potential, there is nothing stopping you.✦

► Politics reduces the productivity of individuals and eventually the organization is at a loss. People tend to spend their maximum time in pulling each other’s legs and playing nasty politics at work.✦

► Individuals find it difficult to concentrate on work due to unnecessary politics at the workplace. Remember the organization pays you for your hard work, and not for playing politics at workplace.✦

► It majorly affects the relationship amongst the individuals. Friends turn foes due to politics. People stop helping and most importantly trusting each other.✦

► Office politics also increases conflicts and tensions at the workplace. Employees do not enjoy at the workplace and treat work as a burden.✦

► Politics never helps in the long run. Ultimately it is an individual’s hard work and intelligence which benefits him.✦

► Employees must enjoy a healthy relationship with their colleagues to give their best. Discussions are important to reach to the best option. Due to politics people avoid interacting with their fellow workers and thus fail to reach to innovative conclusions. The concept of teamwork and working in groups get nullified in cases of work politics.✦

► Criticism increases as a result of office politics and people tend to crib more.✦

► One should not favour any of his team members just because he offers him a lift daily to work. One should keep his personal and professional lives separate.✦

► Office politics promotes negativity at the workplace.✦

【Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below】

⇢ Machiavellianism

⇢ Machiavellian Comparison of Two Princes

⇢ Machiavellianism at Workplace

⇢ Negative Effects

⇢ Psychological Contracts

⇢ Deviance

⇢ Deviance Worksheets

⇢ Counterproductive Work Behavior

⇢ What Office Politics Does to Companies

⇢ What Office Politics Does to Employees

⇢ Managerial Mistakes

⇢ Changes in Management Techniques

⇢ Why is Office Politics a Dirty Word?

⇢ Un-demonizing Office Politics

⇢ Constructive Office Politics

⇢ Legitimate

⇢ Influencing Others

⇢ Conclusion