1. ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS

2. WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS
??
Actions by individuals that are directed
toward the goal of furthering their
own self interest without regard for
the well being of others or their
organizations

3. ANTECEDENTS OF POLITICS
• Personal and organizational variables
• Politics in human resource management
• Politics and the organizational lifespan

4. PERSONAL CHARACHTERISTICS
High Machiavellianism
• It is acceptable to use
others for personal
needs

5. High self-monitoring
• Those who do what
ever it takes others
to like them

6. Ambition
• Strong drive for success

7. Extraversion
• Talkative
• Ability to act naturally
with the people

8. Popularity
• The one who
want to be liked
admired and
supported by
others

9. ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS
• Ambiguous roles, and goals
• Scarce resources
• History of political behavior
• High centralization
• Conflicting goals
• Organizational maturity

10. POLITICS IN HRM
• Performance appraisals
• Personnel selection
• Compensation decisions

11. POLITICS AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL
LIFE SPAN
• Introduction
• maturity/growth
• decline

12. POLITICAL TACTICS
Gaining
control and
selective use
of info
Cultivating a
favorable
impression
Building
powerful
coalitions
Blaming and
attacking
others
Associating
with powerful
others
Creating
obligations
and using
reciprocity

13. Gaining control over and effective use of info
• Withhold information
• Avoid contact
• Be very selective
• overwhelm

14. Cultivating a favorable
impression
• Dressing for success
• Associating with
success of others
• Calling attention

15. Building powerful coalitions
• Lobbying for ideas

16. Blaming and attacking others
• Blaming lower ranking
individuals
• scapegoats

17. Associating with
powerful others
• Agreeing with
someone powerful
• Forming coalitions

18. Creating obligation and
reciprocity
• do favors and wring
benefits

19. EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL
POLITICS
• Low job satisfaction
• Low organizational
commitment
• Low
conscientiousness

20. ETHICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL
POLITICS
• More powerful an
individual is, uses more
power towards some
immoral or unethical
purpose

21. Political Antics Top the “Most Unethical
List”: Survey Results
Gender discrimination
in recruitment or hiring
Arrangements with vendors
leading to personal gain
Nonperformance factors
used in appraisals
Gender discrimination
in compensation
Not maintaining
confidentiality
Using discipline
inconsistently
Gender discrimination
in promotion
Sexual
harassment
Allowing differences in pay
due to friendships
Hiring, training, or promoting
based on favouritism
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Situation
Percentage Responding with a 4 or 5 on a five-Point Scale
Measuring Degree of Seriousness (where 5=“very great”)
(22.6)
(23.1)
(23.5)
(25.8)
(26.4)
(26.9)
(26.9)
(28.4)
(30.7)
(30.7)
Potentially
political
behaviours