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POLITICS
Meaning:
Politics is the way people gain and use the power in the organisation and when employees convert their power into action.
POLITICS
Definition:
refers to the structure and the process of the use of the authority and power to affect the definition of goals, direction and the other major parameters of the organisation. Decisions are not made in a rational way but rather through compromise, accommodation and bargaining.
TUSHMAN
Politics
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
activities that are not regarded as part of ones formal role in the organisation, but that influence or attempt to influence the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within the organisations.
FARRELL AND PETERSON
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3. Politics is endemic to every organisation, regardless of size, function or ownership. Furthermore, it is to be found in every level of the hierarchy and it intensifies as the stake become more important and the area of decision possibilities greater.
PFIFFNER and SHERWOOD
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