Politics: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Red tape renegade has politics on his mind: Stephen L. Green, Chairman, SL Green Realty Corp
He was a major contributor to his brother Mark's mayoral campaign four years ago. He sits on a real estate lobbying panel in Washington. He boasts a rare level of achievement in the private sector, a credential that has been used as a springboard into politics for so many businessmen...
Research articles 2005-04-27
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...
Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Politics, Target, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-08-01
Donald Rumsfeld, America's defence secretary, dismissed European criticism of the treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners airlifted from Afghanistan to a camp in Guantanamo Bay.(this and other national and international topics are discussed)
Politics Politics
Research articles 2002-01-26
Three Reasons Why Negative Works for Politics But Not For Actual Advertising
Three Reasons Why Negative Works for Politics But Not For Actual AdvertisingRE: Three Reasons Why Negative Works for Politics But Not For Actual AdvertMost Marketing "Professors" have no idea what they're talking about when they pontificate on what you can and can't do. That's because they look only to the...
Tags: Negative, actual advertising, advertisement
Discussion threads 2008-09-26
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
OPEC finds that politics and oil mix
VIENNA, Austria -- The key to raising the price of oil, OPEC has decided, is found more in politics than economics.
Tags: OPEC
Research articles 1999-03-26
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