BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Politics
- the theory of government, the making of policy, or the power struggles within an organization
Wiktionary Definition for: Politics
- #The practice of responding to conflict with dialogue.
- #Set of policies relating to governmental and legal matters
- Ex:''I don't like his politics.''
- #campaigning Campaigning or arguing for a set of policies, or maneuvering for power
- Ex: ''I want to go into politics.''
- #The study of disputes between rival political factions.
- Ex:''Favoritism is the only use of politics.'' Richard L Kempe
- Political affairs of life, party politics, local politics.
- Ex: ''He's thinking of going into politics'', e.g., trying to become a Member of Parliament.
- Political views or beliefs.
- Ex: ''What are your politics?''
- rivalry between political parties
- Ex: ''They're not concerned with welfare: it's all politics!''
Additional Resources
- 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...
- White papers 2004-10-27
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-13
- 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...
- Videos 2007-07-02
- 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...
- White papers 2005-11-14
- Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy
- Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to change the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics, activist strategies, and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- The Interactive Effects of Politics Perceptions and Trait Cynicism on Work Outcomes
- The study presented in this paper examined the interactive relationship of politics perceptions and trait cynicism on two work outcomes: job satisfaction and citizenship behaviors. Trait cynicism is characterized as a personality trait that is stable across settings. Using a diverse sample of 311 full-time employees drawn from a variety...
- White papers
- SWOT Team: Internal Politics Can Sink Your Marketing Boat
- Internal politics and conflicts can hamper the productivity of an organization on the whole. It may seem far from being true to sift through the politics to get the job done. Individual personalities have individual ways of dealing with political breeding grounds. This article suggests three themes to organize newsletter...
- White papers 2003-09-09
- Company Politics and Six Sigma
- No grouping of human beings is without some amount of politics. Managing deployment of Six Sigma in organization will unavoidably run into some personal issues and conflict. However, with deft handling of the personal and political issues that come up, along with patience and perseverance, the Six Sigma deployment will...
- White papers
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Environmentalism: The Cultural Roots of Green Politics and Policies
- This article speculates on the influence of religion on national patterns of environmental politics and policies. It develops a framework for classifying national differences in environmental policies and policies among rich countries and then explores the role of culture in general and religion in particular in helping to illuminate these...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Big, Fat Corporate Politics
- Big, Fat Corporate PoliticsI would go.Its not right that politics and your job mix in this way but what should be and is are oftentimes blurred in the gray area of corporate life. If moving up to the next level within this company is important, I would go. If you...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- The Politics of Intranet Ownership
- With the rational consolidation of intranet sites and services under a central site or portal, disparate departments and stakeholders such as corporate communications, human resources, IT and varying business units now must cooperate under a lone umbrella with a single intranet home page. Along with this 'Forced' cooperation comes the...
- White papers
- Competing For The Public Through The News Media
- Interest groups seek to influence economic activity through public and private politics. Public politics takes place in the arenas of public institutions, whereas private politics takes place outside public institutions often in the arena of public sentiment. Private politics refers to action by interest groups directed at private parties, as...
- White papers 2003-06-26
- Organizational Politics: Architect Competency Elaboration
- Organizational politics is essential to the effectiveness of an architect. Architectures have many and diverse stakeholders. Often they are used across organizational boundaries, by other projects, divisions, and even other companies. To gain and maintain the sponsorship of management and the enthusiastic support of other key influencers, one need to...
- White papers 2002-10-21
- Patients and Doctors: Reformulating the Politics of Health
- If the rhetoric of policy is to be believed, patient power will soon dominate the politics of health. According to The NHS plan, the present guide to the future of the Health Service, patients will have a greater say in their treatment, more information, wider choice, and efficient means for...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Market Lift Sandbagging (Part 2)
- The first part of this paper explored ways to keep a superior project staff with a focus on inter-team dynamics. This second and final part will focus on external dynamics such as corporate culture, politics and human resource management in matrixed and dotted-lined organizations. One of the biggest underlying reasons...
- White papers 2005-04-25
- The Politics And Economics Of Offshore Outsourcing
- During the presidential campaign of 2004, no economic issue generated more heat or shed less light than the debate over offshore outsourcing. This fact was probably apparent at the time to any economist who followed politics, but it was felt especially acutely by the authors of this paper. The authors...
- White papers 2006-03-01
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