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
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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