Negative Effects of office politics- part 1

Influence negatively in employees’ work performance and reduce productivity of organization

                          

- Apple-polisher is the key person who affects the office members because they can affect the superior’s mind of promoting which employee. Usually, the superior trust the apple-polisher and give them enough power to predominate over the office politics. Therefore they will have enough power and reason to banish other members of the office especially the outstanding one. 

- For example, the superior is completely turned off by the apple-polisher then he/she will reject other employees’ opinion or idea and give all the chance to apple-polisher to perform themselves. As a result of it, employees may feel despair to their work as no one will pay any single attention on their ideas or suggestions, it will cool down the employees’ passion of work  and put not much efforts in working, eventually employees’ work performances are affected. 

- At first, employees that have great potential in work are the apple-polisher’s first target; it is because they may be more prominent than apple-polisher and it invoke the apple-polisher jealousy. After banishing the outstanding one, apple-polisher will take control of the office that other employees will be afraid of him/her and willingly to be the apple-polisher’s attendant. 

- Apple-polisher creates an unfair situation among employees eventually damage the balancing of office politics. The employees that work under the depression of the apple-polisher overbearing power, they don’t dare to provide new ideas as they afraid that they will be the next target of the apple-polisher’s office politics. 

- In conclusion, employees’ poor work performance is created under this unfair and political circumstance which is playing by the apple-polisher. Of course, office politics not only have the negative effect on employees’ work performance but also will reduce the productivity of one organization. If the employees have the problem of completing their task efficiently, the office overall performance will be affected. Due to office politics, apple-polisher stops everyone from providing brilliant ideas to the organization, then the organization management can’t come out the new policy to increase the profit made of organization.

- In addition, an office workplace is always full of opposing forces. There are people who like to see a project succeed and also will have others who like to see the project as a failure. These two sets of people often oppose to each other’s opinion and it creates a balance of office politics but it will reduce the business transaction productivity. In one of the case that I have found via network, a company division didn’t want to implement better software because of influence from the team of old software maintenance risked losing their job. This group ensured that new software was not implemented. As a result, the productivity and efficiency of the division suffered. In the end, the group was broken up by the senior management and new software implemented. A six months implementation lasted for two years.