Management Experience and Perceptions of Organization Political Behavior

You stab My Back, I’ll Stab yours: Management Experience and Perceptions of Organization Political Behavior

Organizational politics are very important to an every organization, where this will play a major role within the organization as a whole. Politics are a reality in most organizations, where in order to secure resources, progress ideas, achieve personal goals and even to enhance the one’s standing. Ferris argued that the field of organizational politics remains largely unexplored, particularly with regard to the subjective experience. The main focus of this research goes align with the management experience, implications of the organizational change, Individual performance, reputation and career. A good political behavior will focus more towards the value of openness, honesty and integrity and ethical leadership. One aim of this particular research is to explore the British manager’s perception regarding this political background and the second aim will emphasis on developing a framework liking the perceived antecedents of organization politic, through political tactics.

Terminology, evidence, theory

The phenomena of organizational power and politics are broad, where we can broadly divide them as macro and micro political approaches. Macro politics are focused on structural bases of organization power and the role of combination in promoting collective agendas. Micro approaches are concentrated on individual behavior, relationship and perceptions.  The common definition for organization politics is long standing concern. Kacmar and Romm, 1990 mentioned that what organizational politics and hoe it should be measured in advance, where concentrating on political and non political actions, within the organization. 

List of References 

Buchanan, D, A, 2007. You Stab my back, ill stab yours: Management experience and perception of organizational political behavior, vol 19, pp. 49-64