{"id":39152,"date":"2015-07-25T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=39152"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:49:23","slug":"office-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/office-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Office-Politics.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39163\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Office-Politics.jpeg\" alt=\"Office Politics\" width=\"255\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Politics&#8217; refers to social relations to gain authority or power.<br \/>\n&#8216; Office Politics&#8217; means use of power to achieve the changes that benefit the organisation or individuals working in it.<br \/>\nIn any organisation, it is naive to expect a politics-free zone. And business schools and institutions can never prepare you for the manipulations and mind-games that exists in the corporate set-up. Whether individual or group is engaged in office politics, both are highly destructive, as people focus on personal gains or benefits at the cost of the organisation. A line says &#8216;self-serving politics actions can negatively influence our social grouping, cooperations, information sharing and many other organisational functions&#8217;. Thus, it is important to create a healthy political landscape and more attention on organisational politics.<br \/>\nHave you ever notice how some mediocre employees rise while more capable ones fade? Often, it is because they know how to play office politics.<br \/>\nYou could choose the higher moral grounds and stay out of office politics but saying &#8216; I am not interested in politics&#8217; can never guarantee you that people will leave you alone. Once you get branded in the workplace, people will always be on their guard around you so you&#8217;ll always have to &#8216;politics battle ready&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Play positive politics:<br \/>\nPlay positive politics, although your co-workers or bosses will probably turn any stabbing instincts. So, lets learn some positive politics strategies-<br \/>\n* Encourage your respected &#8216;higher-ups&#8217; to think you as a protege, and they are more likely to defend you when you need them.<br \/>\n* Perform some &#8216;deliberate acts of kindness&#8217;.<br \/>\n* If some important tasks are not in your job, ask if you can take one on. Be sure everyone knows it.<br \/>\n* keep your Antennae on-<br \/>\n&#8211; keep an eye on the people who seems to disagree you at the meetings.<br \/>\n-keep yourself updated with the information loop and you should never be lacking in resources which need to do in your job.<br \/>\nSo, if you play positive politics, you&#8217;ll never have to go into attack mode. Always remember that there&#8217;s no CEO in the world who hasn&#8217;t played the politics to succeed in this world!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Human-Resources\">Click here for government certification in Human Resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;Politics&#8217; refers to social relations to gain authority or power. &#8216; Office Politics&#8217; means use of power to achieve the changes that benefit the organisation or individuals working in it. In any organisation, it is naive to expect a politics-free zone. And business schools and institutions can never prepare you for the manipulations and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":39163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1529],"tags":[5473,5471,1871,5472],"class_list":["post-39152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources-2","tag-i-am-not-interested-in-politics","tag-office-politics","tag-ceo","tag-self-serving-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Office Politics - Vskills Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you think office Politics does any good to an organization? Apply for a Vskills certification in HR now. 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