Understanding Office Politics in a Week

Working in any organization is a challenge. But the help and support of your colleagues, staff and manager will always pull you through. Or will it? It has to be accepted that other people within your organization have their own agenda. They may well help you, but more certainly they will help themselves. This manual seeks to put some realism back into our view of the office environment. It reviews the causes of office politics and the forms they take, and offers advice about how to deal with it. Seven sections take the reader through: the realities of office life; adopting the right approach; the power of personal image; the role of communications; management matters; active responses and initiatives; and consolidating your position.