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Office Politics: Why You Need to Play the Game

Learning How to Manage Office Politics Will Help You Get Along & Get Ahead

Ignore Office Politics at Your Own Peril

Do we, incumbents and challengers on our own political stage that is the office, fare better than the politicians we love to cheer and jeer? 

Rex C. Mitchell, Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Management at California State University observes that organizational politics, while neutral until touched by human perception, are usually viewed by players and observers alike as a negative; the common perception being that organizations should work to minimize politicking.

For those of us with a keen political awareness, however, the importance of communication via sympathetic belief systems and shared goals is a part of organizational life that is ignored -- or dismissed as manipulation -- at one’s professional peril.

 

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