Office Politics: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Office Politics

  • interpersonal dynamics within a workplace. Office politics involves the complex network of power and status that exists within any group of people.

Additional Resources

Video: Playing Positive Office Politics
Does a sudden chill creep up your spine when you hear the words "Office Politics"? Is there a Spy, a Bully, a Gatekeeper, or a Buck-passer dragging you down in your office? It doesn't have to be that way! Business coach, Starla Sireno provides some practical tips for keeping office...
Tags: Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Video, Politics, BNET staff
Blog posts 2007-07-02
Playing Positive Office Politics
Does a sudden chill creep up your spine when you hear the words “Office Politics”? Is there a Spy, a Bully, a Gatekeeper, or a Buck-passer dragging you down in your office? It doesn’t have to be that way! Business coach, Starla Sireno provides some practical tips for keeping office...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Politics, Office Suites, Software, Office Politics, environment
Videos 2007-07-02
The Office Politics Playbook
You don’t need dirty tricks, but you do need to know the rules. Use these techniques to get what you want in the workplace.You may not think you play office politics, but to some degree you have no choice. The real question is: are you doing it well? Whatever you...
Tags: Andrew Mager, Office Politics, Workplace, Team Management, BNET Feature Package, Kelly Pate Dwyer
Articles 2008-02-19
Coping with Office Politics
Coping with Office PoliticsCHANGE MANAGEMENT OF YOURSELFI believe this is a very good lead up to integrate yourself to change management in organizations. I'm a current professor at MBA programs in my country, Colombia. I´m planning to integrate these valuable readings to my programs.I´ve been using Bnet for a couple...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Politics, onus, workplace
Discussion threads 2007-03-22
The Politics Of Projects
For better or for worse, office politics is the art of getting things done: It's what makes most organizations run. Without it, most businesses will just grind to a halt as personal agendas don't get fulfilled, interests don't get satisfied and people don't get what they want. If you want...
Tags: Politics, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-13
Saddam Hussein is still in office, but it was disclosed this week that America's State Department is already inviting bids from organisations that could provide humanitarian relief in Iraq after he is ousted.(Brief Article)(Column)
Politics Politics
Tags: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2002-08-17
Projects & Politics: Evil Or Just Inevitable?
Sooner or later, all of us must face the inevitable. No matter what we do, where we go or how much we hope otherwise, politics eventually emerge as a force to be reckoned with. Politics are seemingly inevitable, whether it's participating in a volunteer organization, serving on a board of...
Tags: Politics, Fact, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
White papers 2004-10-27
America's Justice Department announced that it had foiled in the early planning stage an al-Qaeda plot to set off a radiological bomb in an American city.(includes other workd politics news)(Brief Article)
Politics Politics
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice
Research articles 2002-06-15
CLEAR COMMUNICATION IS KEY TO BEATING OFFICE POLITICS
Office politics is a major challenge facing leaders according to new research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CIPD and talent management company Development Dimensions International DDI. The findings, published in a report callOffice politics is a major challenge facing leaders according to new research by the Chartered...
Tags: Clear, DDI, leader, office politics
Research articles 2007-06-01
Video: Playing Positive Office Politics
Video: Playing Positive Office PoliticsThis is right onIt's great to hear these tips and know that there are ways to handle difficult people and situations in the workplace. This should be sent around to all the offices that I've been fortunate enough to become acquainted with! Thanks, Starla!Finally...
Tags: office politic, Positive Office Politics, Starla, video
Discussion threads 2007-07-10
Simplify the Politics! The First Step of Corporate Renewal
Article renounce that the politics were simplified; in over a hundred different ways they were simplified. It is not really hard to do, this simplifying of politics once we know it can be done, certainly not after you have seen it done. It makes money for the company like nothing...
Tags: Politics, Refresher Publications, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2003-01-01
Get out of politics and back to work, ISO urges. (property-casualty insurance industry, Insurance Services Office)
ATLANTA--It's time for the property-casualty industry to get out of politics and back into making the insurance process work, according to the head of the Insurance Services Office, Fred R. Marcon. "Lackluster insurer results, worsening catast ATLANTA--It's time for the property-casualty industry to get...
Tags: industry, insurance, insurance company, ISO
Research articles 1994-11-21
The Essential Leadership Skill - Managing Office Politics
One of the skills that successful leaders need to master is a bit of a dirty word these days. It's not the sort of thing they offer leadership training courses on, but it lies at the heart of most business relationships. When we call someone 'A political animal', we're often...
Tags: Office Politics, Management, Leadership, DiscoveryArticles.com
White papers 2008-07-12
WTO Bows to Science, Rejects Politics & Protectionism
The following is a statement being issued by Steve Dittmer of the Agribusiness Freedom Foundation: If there is one thing we've observed despite the globalization of trade, it's that the old game of politics still too often trumps science or economics. And politics usually lags behind change and innovation...
Tags: World Trade Organization
Research articles 2006-02-08
President George Bush submitted a $2.13 trillion budget to Congress.
Politics Politics
Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-02-09
Leadership Analysis in an Era of Institutionalized Party Politics
This paper tells about the matter of theological certainty that leadership politics is about power and the struggle to attain and sustain it. With interpretive dilemmas such as these, however, it is not clear whether and how the longstanding frameworks for analyzing leadership politics still apply. Within the sturdier lattice...
Tags: Management, Leadership
White papers 2005-11-14
Veteran clears up political risk misconceptions.(Brief Article)
``Political Risk Insurance Guide'' By Daniel Wagner Published by International Risk Management Institute, 12222 Merit Drive, Suite 1450, Dallas, Texas 75251-2276; 972-960-7693 $54.40 Tired of office politics? Try global politics, and-t ...
Tags: insurance, International Risk Management Institute Inc., risk, Risk Manager
Research articles 1999-11-15
Politics.com Appoints Marc Jacobson President and COO; Former Prodigy Exec, Web Advocate to Lead Internet Company Dedicated to Politics
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 9, 1999--
Tags: Internet, Web
Research articles 1999-09-09
Argentina got its third government in a fortnight. Congress chose Eduardo Duhalde, a Peronist senator, to serve as the country's president until 2003.(political news and current events around the world)
Politics Politics
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-01-05
Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism at the State Department, has been appointed by George Bush to be the top civil administrator in Iraq.(includes news of other current events)
Politics Politics
Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2003-05-10
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