As a country, also has a political office, your office is no exception. As ‘citizens’ well, you should understand the political direction of your office, as you inevitably touched on this and could not avoid it for granted.
Maybe you think the term ‘politics’ is too scary and negative connotations because of the things that always smelled of politics associated with the intrigues and cunning. Indeed, if not clever, you can get stuck in it, or even worse you become a ‘victim politics’. Before that happens, there are strategies you need to know.
What is office politics?
Simply put, office politics is a way of utilizing our working environment with the goal of keeping a job, task, and our responsibility completed or achieved a good fit with our expectations. Virtually, no one of office does not have any politics inside. Why? Because, in some offices there are several people with duties and responsibilities are different, which causes each one has a strategy to get to their destination, either alone or sought out in groups. If everyone does the same thing that achieved a healthy climate of competition, the office politics is healthy.
In other words, every person has the strategy and its own sensitivity in capturing signals from the environment and determines the actions that he thought most appropriate to be taken.
Politics is always synonymous with intrigue?
Politics in the workplace were often negatively connoted and identical with the intrigues. This happens because the competition created a negative atmosphere, where its main purpose is to gain power and influence, no longer provide an adequate contribution to the company. In fact, if the goal to be achieved through politics it is the quality of a better job, not merely because of the ambition to reach a position without considering other things, the politics of running a political office right.
Should we care about office politics?
Yes! First, that the work can be completed smoothly, because you know the gaps hard and how to penetrate a tactical manner. Second, which you know around of you and not one step. People who do not want to know office politics, like the frog in the shell, because he did not know anything. Furthermore, this ignorance could be bad. For example you take one of your colleagues as a good colleague, without realizing that he was using you as a “pawn” for the sake of ambition.
How to recognize our office politics?
You must diligently observe, to be open (like absorbing information and ask), creating the impression that you can trust. However, equally important, you are expected to create good communication and interaction that is neutral. So, the information you need can be found immediately, and your recognition process can go smoothly.
Does Political office only by the upper middle position?
No. Anyone can engage in politics. The people with the title not necessarily cleaner can create an atmosphere of political trigger. It could be the decisive is the people underneath, but it has a strong enough influence. At the bottom, politics can unfold. For example, they entity to obtain confidential information, and deliberately made to pressure the company tantrum management. Therefore, you should be careful if you want to get involved in office politics. You know the risk that you will bear.
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