Positive Effect of Office Politics- Part 1

Increase the communication between workers 

A study of HR managers and professionals by Roffey Park has found that, just below a third of people pessimistically felt office politics could never be used constructively, more than 50 per cent of them had experience it being used for the better purpose. The survey shows that 61 per cent of the 856 people admitted having indulged in political behavior, but that it had led them to a positive outcome for their organization. 

When political behavior is used constructively, it can lead the employee to better and more effective relationships, a greater understanding of individual agendas, more “win-win” situations and people acting in a more principled way. Some of the organization use office politics to improve the connection among employees. Office politics allow employees at all level to move up, because employees will work hard and come up with more outstanding idea in order to get attention from the superior. In order to stop the apple-polisher, other employees will cooperate together withstand the dark power in the organization. It improves the positive connection among employees and affect the organization pay more attention at the behavior of apple-polisher. Therefore, the communication among employees and boss will increase; the barriers of lacking communication will be resolved automatically.

Furthermore, the report, The Power of Constructive Politics, also suggested political behavior can be used to unblock barriers to change, create greater “buy-in” on key projects, produce more organizational cohesion and speed up decision making. In a general way, office politics help manager to support the employees through acquiring the resources they need and get the job done easily. Manager also plays the role as a buffer between the employees and pressures from the boss. When the manager gets enough power, he can help the employees to require more employees preferential, such as yearly staff travel, increase of wages and so on. Office politics may also help the organization as a whole succeed since senior-level leaders use politics to support and enthusiasm for organization initiatives.  According to the news report, there are some companies use office politics to boost productivity. The report shows that nowadays, many businesses are changing the face of work based relationship by using political behavior to positive effect.