ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
UNIT –IV
Presented By
Senthil kumar.N
Today's Discussion
 Review of last class
 power
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POLITICS
 According to Stephen Robbins, “politics in an organization
are those activities that are not required as part of one’s
formal role in the organization, but that influence, or attempt
to influence, the distribution of advantages and disadvantages
within the organization
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POLITICS/POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
 Organizational politics is all about--actions not officially
approved by an organization that are taken to influence
others to meet one's personal goals.
 Organizational politics does involve planning one's self-
interest above the interests of the organization.
TYPES: OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
 Legitimate Political Behavior
Normal everyday politics.
 Illegitimate Political Behavior
Extreme political behavior that violates the implied rules of
the game.
FACTORS INFLUENCING POLITICAL
BEHAVIOR
.
Individual factors
High self-monitors
Internal locus of control
High Mach personality
Organizational investment
Perceived job alternatives
Expectations of success
Political behaviour
Low
Organizational Factors
Reallocation of Resources
Promotion Opportunities
Low Trust
Role Ambiguity
Zero sum reward Practice
Democratic decision making
High performance pressure
Self serving senior managers
High
Favourable
Rewards
outcomes
Averted Punishments
 High self-monitors
Skilled in political behavior
 Internal locus of control
proactive and prone to manipulate situation in their
favor
 High Mach personality
will to manipulate and desire for power. Use politics to
further self interest
 Organizational investment
investment in terms of expectations forces the
individual to use illegitimate means
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 Perceived job alternatives
more job opportunities an individual has, results in
more political behavior
 Organizational Factors
 Reallocation of Resources
the reallocation of resources is necessary when
the resources available either increase or decrease. These
situations force the individual to resort the policies
 Promotion Opportunities
normally the opportunitys for promotion or
advancement are lesser than the candidate expectation
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 Low Trust
low trust in organizations leads to tight control which
in turn makes the subordinates to behave illegitimately
 Role Ambiguity
the unclear expectation from the employee makes him
act politically
 Zero sum reward Practice
the win lose approach in reward allocation is
called zero sum approach people perceive that they won
double if others lose
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 Democratic decision making
the traditionally autocratic managers cannot make the
decision democratically in its true sense
 High performance pressure
high performance pressures make the people to
find short cuts and politics to show superfluously high
performance or through window dressing
 Self serving senior managers
the political behavior by the top management
with rewards encourages the people at the lower level to
resort to politics
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EMPLOYEE RESPONSES TO
ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS
 .
Decreased Job Satisfaction
Organizational
Politics
May
Threaten
Employees.
Increased Anxiety and Stress
Increased Turnover
Reduced Performance
TACTICS USED TO GAIN POLITICAL
POWER
 There are several tactics which individuals and groups can use
to gain power in an organization. Some of these tactics below
 Bargaining or trade-off
 Competition
 Co-optation
 Coalition
 Pressure
 Control over information
 Control over communication channels
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LEVELS OF POLITICAL ACTION
 Individual level
individual pursuit of general self interest
 Coalition level
co operative pursuit of group specific action
 Network level
co operative pursuit of general self interests
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THANK YOU,,,,,
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