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    This document discusses organizational politics and political behavior within organizations. It defines political behavior as activities that influence decision making and the distribution of advantages, sometimes for self-serving reasons. It identifies individual factors like high self-monitors and organizational factors like limited resources and unclear performance evaluations that can encourage political behavior. Political behavior can have negative consequences for employees like decreased job satisfaction and increased stress and turnover. The document provides strategies for political behavior and implications for managers to understand organizational politics.

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    This document discusses organizational politics and political behavior within organizations. It defines political behavior as activities that influence decision making and the distribution of advantages, sometimes for self-serving reasons. It identifies individual factors like high self-monitors and organizational factors like limited resources and unclear performance evaluations that can encourage political behavior. Political behavior can have negative consequences for employees like decreased job satisfaction and increased stress and turnover. The document provides strategies for political behavior and implications for managers to understand organizational politics.

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    This document discusses organizational politics and political behavior within organizations. It defines political behavior as activities that influence decision making and the distribution of advantages, sometimes for self-serving reasons. It identifies individual factors like high self-monitors and organizational factors like limited resources and unclear performance evaluations that can encourage political behavior. Political behavior can have negative consequences for employees like decreased job satisfaction and increased stress and turnover. The document provides strategies for political behavior and implications for managers to understand organizational politics.

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    ORGANIZATIONAL Presented By:

    Amit Kumar
    POLITICS Ankush goyal
    POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
    Definition:- Activities that are not part of a person’s
    formal role in the organization but that influence or
    attempt to influence the distribution of advantages and
    disadvantages within the organization.
    Organizational politics focuses on the use of power to
    affect decision making in an organization, sometimes for
    self serving and organizationally unsanctioned
    behaviours.
    IMPORTANCE OF
    ORGANIZATION POLITICS
    Chart Title

    politics

    Hard work

    initiative

    Creativity
    0 10 20 30 40 50 60

    Column1
    FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO
    POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
    Research and observations have identified a number of factors
    that appear to encourage political behaviour. Basically they are
    classified as:

    Individual factor

    Organizational factor

    Environmental factors
    INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
    There are several individual factors that lead an individual to
    engage in political behaviour, some of them can be:
    High self-monitors
    Internal locus of control
    Organizational investment
    Perceived job alternatives
    Expectations of success
    Some simply engage in political behaviour because they are good
    at it.
    ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS
    There are certain situation and cultures that promotes politics within
    an organization like:
    Organizational culture
    Organizational goals
    Organizational structure
    Limited resources
    Personnel policies
    Decision making
    Individual factors
    • High Self monitors
    • Internal locus of control
    • High Machiavelian personality
    • Organizational investment
    • Perceived Job alternatives
    • Expectation of success
    Favourable outcomes
    Political behaviour
    • Reward
    Low High
    Organizitional factors • Averted
    • Reallocation of resources punishments
    • Promotion opportunities
    • Low trust
    • Role ambiguity
    • Unclear performance
    evaluation system
    • Zero sum reward politics FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE
    • Democratic decision making POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
    • High performance pressure
    • Self serving senior managers
    CONSEQUENCES OF
    POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
    Most people who have modest political skills or are unwilling to
    play the political games, outcomes tend to be predominantly
    negative. Politics may lead to different consequences like:
    Decreased job satisfaction
    Increased anxiety and stress
    Increased turnover
    Reduced performance
    Decreased job
    satisfaction

    Increased anxiety and


    stress
    Organizitional
    politics may
    threaten
    employees Increased
    turnover

    Reduced
    performance
    REASONS BEHIND NEGATIVE
    OUTCOMES OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR

    Employees perceive political environment to be unfair


    Low understanding of politics
    See politics as a threat
    Affect on ethical leadership
    HOW ORGANIZATIONS
    INCREASE POLITICS WITHIN
    • Zero Sum Approach
    • Reducing resources
    QUALIFIERS
    • Politics –performance relationship: When both understanding and
    politics are high the erformance is likely to increase.
    • Political behaviour at work moderates the effect of ethical
    leadership
    • Defensive behaviour:-
    Reactive and protective behaviors to avoid action blame or
    change.
    DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS
    AVOIDING ACTION AVOIDING BLAME AVOIDING CHANGE
    OVERCONFORMING BLUFFING PREVENTION
    BUCK PASSING PLAYING SAFE SELF PROTECTION
    PLAYING DUMB JUSTIFYING
    STRETCHING SCAPEGOATING
    STALLING MISREPRESENTING
    POLITICAL STRATERGIES
    • Impression management
    • Extra role relationships
    • Coalitions
    • Bargaining
    • Outside Consultants
    ETHICS IN BEHAVING
    POLITICALLY
    • What is the utility of engaging in politicking ?
    • Whether the utility of engaging in politicking will
    balance out harm ( or potential) harm to others.
    • Does the political activity conform to standards of equity
    and justice ?
    IMPLICATIONS FOR
    MANAGERS
    • To maximize your power increase others dependence on you.
    • You will not be alone in attempting to build your power basis.
    • Try to avoid putting others in a position where they feel they have
    no power.
    • By assessing behaviour in a political framework, you can better
    predict the action of others and use that info to form political
    strategies that will help you in gaining advantage.
    QUESTIONS!!!
    THANK YOU

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