Negative Effects of office politics - part 3

   Influence one’s mental health.

Office politics will influence one’s mental health. Commonly, employees feel stress in the work place as their ideas are not noticed by the superior or group members and also their lack of interpersonal skills are one of the reasons that their hard-work is neglected. Wherefore employees may have the problem of sleeping, loss concentration on work, over-reacting with other’s word and become unapproachable. In some instances, office members may avoid sharing their opinion of work, and also avoid attending company meeting to prevent themselves from experiencing stress or having stress symptoms. Studies on harassment in the workplace show “potentially harmful psychological effects”, including the possibility of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Toyne (2001) says that his stress comes from office politics, demanding of perfect work performance, and unstoppable working schedule which combine scolding, bullying and harassing experience. Office politics always related to loses of job, reputation, salary that he suffers tremendous pressure. In some case, the damage is too served to recover (Graham, 1998; Serven, 2002)  .