Positive Effect of Office Politics --- Part 2

Self-assessment of workers

In the political environment, workers will be able to reflect themselves. Office politics force employee to face who they truly is, how they can conduct themselves in workplace, what position they can put themselves in the office. By asking themselves questions, employees usually can find their way of what they can do in the office and identify themselves to work in the position that suit them most. Of course that employee can’t have the thought of getting benefit by adjusting politics and disputes, yet as common sense that employees can learn from the mistakes that they have done and readjust their mind. After that they only can obtain the advantages of work, such as praise from boss and so on. 

In addition, office politics maintain a balance of power between the pioneer and the young generation. Whenever there is new superior of director on board, they will bring their team or best assistant to help them to get thing done faster to show their ability in work. They will also seek support from the organization’s members to achieve their job effectively. Without a supportive strong team, the new director or manager will face a challenge from the old senior. In most case, the new team of director or manager will be formed by partly of the existing management team and the team will communicate the change initiative to the whole organization. This situation can avoid the senior controlling the organization’s growth, and also increase the chances to promote more proficient young generation. The report shows that the majority of business leaders had developed their political skills through bitter experience. Nearly nine out of ten say that “ learning from mistakes” had been key and 85 per cent say the “experience of managing crisis” had been valuable. 

In an organization, there are some people that are very important to company, they always can give company useful advises or ideas when the company is facing risk. Not all of them are very professional, but some of their behavior will affect the employees, so the company will give those people more advantages in work. Here is where the office politics prevent the company losing their strategy resources and keep the company moving yet it is used in a positive way but not the ‘ugly’ office politics. 

 

Every workplace is political, even though a small office which only has two workers; it will also create the incident of tournament. To survive in this confusing situation, one must be positively accepting the fact and face the hard condition in the workplace by knowing the benefit and the determent of this issue. In fact, more and more businesses are using positive office politics to boost productivity, according to a new report and large number of people saying that they have witnessed a positive outcome after personally engaging in political behavior.  Office politics benefit the company growth will be the key issue that people would like to investigate.