...Political Behaviour in Organizations Review the definition of organizational politics. Discuss whether an organization can be totally free of political behaviours? How could managers minimize political behaviours in their organization? (Farrell and Petersen 1982) states that Political behaviour resides in informal structures and relates to the promotion of self and group interests rather than being part of those formal roles regulated by organizational norms and goals. Both researchers went on to define Political behaviour in organizations as “those activities that are not required as part of one’s organizational role but that influence, or attempt to influence, the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within the organization.” Additionally (Robbins and Judge 2011) suggested that organizational politics focuses on the use of power to affect decision making in an organization or on individual and organizationally unsanctioned behaviours. It also includes efforts to influence the goals, criteria or processes used for decision making. (Robbins and Judge 2011) indentified two dimensions which influences political behaviours within the organization, and which plays a pivot role in the behaviours and attitudes found in the organization. These include: legitimate and illegitimate political behaviour. Legitimate political behaviour refers to the normal everyday polities which includes obstruction of organizational policies and decision through inaction or excessive...
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...AKWA UNITED RESURRECT IN UYO THRASH SHARK 3 -0 Akwa United football club of Uyo last Wednesday attempted to balance their alarming and dying feat and number of goals conceded recently in their away matches by what has been term by many as the resurrection of the …………. base Nigeria professional football league side by thrashing the visiting shanks of port Harcourt 3.0 in their week ten match at the Uyo township stadium. The Uyo team which previously laboured in their encounter with the visiting ABSFC of Illorin by coming from behind to draw may have left their dream stage in the league and vow to retaliate what sunshine did to them when they were beaten 3-0 with no reply. Planning before a scanty fan, Akwa United welcome sharks into the pitch with a shocking goal just 2 minute from the blast of the refere’s whistle through their high goal scorer Ubong Ekpai sporting jersey number 29. Under the tutelage of justice tangier, the Uyo club side dominated the first half of the encounter thereby forcing the sharks die fence line to committee some blonder which led to a free kick awarded to Akwa United and was converted to their visitors net by the team’s former captain Namso Edo sporting jersey number 6, bring the first half of the game to an unarguable 2-0. At the restart of the match Sharks played a more purposeful football than Akwa United but all effort to reduce the tally was aborted as they could not take advantage of the Conner kicks awarded them. Both teams made some substitutions...
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...ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT When I entered employment with FreightQ the company’s organisational structure had labour divided according to the products it transported. Due to the large demand for the transportation of a particular product (coal) support was provided by means of a parallel division. This supporting division, entitled National Customer Strategy (NCS), focused on retaining and attracting new coal customers. The NCS division identified a need to provide customers with complete supply chain solution. To achieve this, FreightQ had to provide a service which spanned across its different divisions. The desire to offer a complete supply chain solution resulted in the creation of a temporary project team (PT) within the NCS division. As part of PT’s complete supply chain, it initiated investigations into Next Generation Rollingstock (NGR). When FreightQ restructured six months later, PT became part of the Strategy and Business Development (S&BD) division. Other important changes for this analysis are: * Jimmy James, General Manager of NCS was appointed Vice President of Business Development within S&BD. * Mandy Marcus, the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the old Coal Division left FreightQ. * Paul Patrick, the Group General Manager for National Capital Planning and Programs became the Vice President for Maintenance. When PT was formed I was appointed as the Engineering Services Lead within the project. I stayed with the...
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...PERSPECTIVES Voluntary Action in India Role, Trends and Challenges Anil Bhatt The voluntary sector needs to play a more overt political role if it is to make any long-lasting dent on social transformation. T H E last t w o decades have seen an unprecedented growth of voluntary or nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in India. While voluntarism has been an age-old phenomenon, it is only in the last couple of decades that so much is being talked, written, debated and done about it. There is a good reason for this. Modern voluntarism is signicantly different from the conventional voluntarism in form, content, intent and impact. Conventional voluntarism was primarily aimed at charity and relief or at best, social welfare and social reform. It sprang out of religiosity, generosity and altruism. It was inspired by idealism rather than ideology [ B a x i 1986]. M o d e r n voluntarism, while incorporating some of the elements of conventional voluntarism, is based on ideology rather than mere idealism. It aims at achieving development and social justice rather than relief and welfare. Therefore, the tools, techniques, approaches and objectives of modern voluntarism differ from that of the conventional. Modern voluntarism strives to change the social, economic and political position of the poor, the deprived, the oppressed and the weak. In the final analysis, therefore, it aims at redistribution of power, status and wealth. W i t h i n this broad mission though, activities, approaches...
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...organizational politics using a situation you are familiar with, describe how power and politics have manifested itself. Introduction There is no accepted definition of politics and power but many scholars have attempted to define it and what is commonly among them is that, politics is ubiquitous in nature. Politics is indeed human, and one cannot separate politics from human activity. This means that whatever we do we are simply exercising the concept of politics whether in our organization, the economy, the family, the school, the media and finally in the political arena. Politics is to be found both vertically and horizontally in our society that is, from all the socio-economic and political angles of the society. This is universal in nature since it was captured in the works of a classical writer Aristotle, it is Aristotle that argues “man is not only a social animal but political in nature”. It is according to this statement that we engage in politics for the desired end to be achieved, “seek ye the political kingdom and shall be added unto it, for a man without politics there is no beatitude”. This line of thinking was also coined to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah the former president of Ghana. The aforesaid line of thinking signify that, we only engage on our organizational matters and other aspects of our life with a clear mind set of politics so that we can achieve the goals and the objectives that are a target to the relevant organization. The concept of politics and power is too...
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...International Journal of Management and Innovation Volume 1 Issue 1 (2009) Living with Organizational Politics: An Exploration of Employee’s Behavior Rajib Lochan Dhar, Symbiosis International University, India Abstract Though organizational politics has been perceived as a threat; negatively influencing levels of staff retention and work productivity, hardly any studies have focused on the employee’s attitude towards the perceived players and the survival strategies in such an environment in the Indian setting. This study aims to explore the employee’s perception of organizational politics, the phase that they go through while working and the ways they adopt to cope up with it, in a sample of 26 employees working in three different automobile manufacturing companies. Qualitative methods have been used in order to understand the feelings and experiences of employees while working in a politically influenced environment. Analysis of the data was done through phenomenological principles. Findings of this study led to the emergence of four major themes namely perceived threat, attitude towards the players, Coping Strategies and intentions to leave. This study has tried to bring out the emotional circumstances that employees go through while working in a politically influenced environment. Key words: Organization, politics, employees, perception and intention Introduction There is a bit of Machiavelli in every one of us. An environment where everyone agrees with each other is a rare...
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...Policy brief series: No. 3; 2008 July CLRA Policy Brief for Parliamentarians Women’s Reservation A Long Delayed and a Much Needed Step “Achieving the goal of equal participation of women and men in decision making will provide a balance that more accurately reflects the composition of society and is needed in order to strengthen democracy and promote its proper functioning… Without the active participation of women and the incorporation of women's perspectives at all levels of decision-making, the goals of equality, development and peace cannot be achieved.” - Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995: Article 181 Introduction Women represent more than half of the world's population and just less than half of the global electorate. Nevertheless, women constitute a marginal proportion of representatives in the world's legislative bodies. In 2008, the average rate of female representation in national parliaments stands at a meagre 18 per cent. India has of yet managed notably limited success in rectifying these imbalances, with women currently holding only 8 per cent of parliamentary seats. Although India was one of the first democratic nations to grant women the vote, women are neither represented in the legislative spaces nor contributing towards the formation of national laws. After twelve years of the Women's Reservation Bill lying in limbo amid intermittent and embarrassingly hot-headed scenes in the House, it was finally introduced in the Rajya Sabha during...
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...The private roots of public participation: Women’s engagement in democratic politics in Pakistan Dissertation – MA Gender and Development Marion R. Mueller, September 2004 Abstract This paper contributes to the discussion about the involvement of women as decision-makers in democratic political processes. It questions the conditions that are necessary to promote such involvement and that open up spaces for the translation of women’s representation into political influence. The context of the devolution of power process in Pakistan shows that it is not enough to only set up democratic institutions to achieve women’s political effectiveness. Instead there is need for significant support through the state, political parties and civil society. To personalise the political is necessary for successfully being able to achieve policy outcomes that reflect women’s interests. Table of contents Abbreviations & Foreign Words 4 List of Figures and Tables 5 Acknowledgements 6 1. Introduction 7 Choice of case study 8/ Methodology 9/ Dissertation structure 10 2. Locating women’s engagement in democratisation 11 3. Imagining the political: women and the nature of the state 16 The framework of the state 16/ Defining access: affirmative action policies in Pakistan 16/ Devolving power to the grassroots 18/ Personalising the political: the presence of women councillors 20 4. Institutionalising the political:...
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...The following case study by drawing upon primary and secondary material focuses on whether the eighteenth century Whiteboy protesters were an economic or political movement? To establish the category the Whiteboys come under we need to do is deifier what constitutes an economic and a political movement. An economic movement has the economy at its core; it deals with the system of production and management of material wealth and is concerned with the worldly necessities of life. A political movement is a group of people working together to attain a political goal, a movement that may be organised around a set of issues or a set of shared concerns of a social group. Moreover it can be identified with the aim in mind to convince citizens and/or government to take action on the issues and concerns around which the movement is associated. Alternatively a political movement can be associated with and/or relating to views about social relationships involving authority or power; in the sense that the poor had rights too. It is fair to say that there is evidence to support the argument that the Whiteboys were economic but there is indication to suggest the latter. The content will focus on both sides of the argument evaluating each and at the end consider which has most weight. To set the scene it is important to note who exactly the Whiteboys were and to use their features, aims, methods and so on to determine what type of movement they were. Indeed the Whiteboys that emerged in...
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...POLITICS, THEOLOGY AND HISTORY RAYMOND PLANT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Politics, Theology and History is a major new book by a prominent academic and an active politician. It ranges widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory and philosophy and poses acute questions about the basic moral foundations of liberal societies. Lord Plant focuses on the role that religious belief can and ought to play in argument about public policy in a pluralistic society. He examines the potential political implications of Christian belief and the ways in which it may be deployed in political debate. The book is a contribution to the modern debate about the moral pluralism of western liberal societies, discussing the place of religious belief in the formation of policy and asking what sorts of issues in modern society might be the legitimate objects of a Christian social and political concern. Raymond Plant has written an important study of the relationship between religion and politics which will be of value to students, academics, politicians, church professionals, policy makers and all concerned with the moral fabric of contemporary life. r ay m on d pl an t is Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton and a Member of the House of Lords. He was a Home affairs spokesperson for the Labour Party from 1992 to 1996, and Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2000. Lord Plant's main publications are Social and Moral Theory in Casework...
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...corporate lobbyists that funnel campaign checks into the big war chests, that's what brought me to the Green Party, the only national party that is not bought and paid for by corporate money." She supports environmentalism, non-violence, social justice and grassroots organizing (bringing things from the community level.) One of her main goals is called the Green New Deal and it kills two birds with one stone; creating jobs in renewable energy, it not only would reduce unemployment but also will help the climate and eventually peoples health. Self-Competency: Jill graduated from medical school and worked with adults and young people, eventually she realized she couldn’t do both this and politics. She says what she is doing now is “political medicine.” She says they have to heal the politics in order to achieve health in all other aspects of society. Diversity Competency: Jill Stein is actually the first Jewish woman presidential candidate. She stands for rights of the disabled, rights of all individuals to choose their intimate partners, religious freedom, etc. Across cultures competency: This may be a far fetch, but I think based on the words in the book “think globally, act locally” Jill embraces the across cultures competency. I’m going to go into immigration here, Stein says if she were president she would aim to create a legal and welcoming path to citizenship. She would also try to fix the problem by negotiating NAFTA (a free trade agreement) to...
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...engage in influencing political decision-making, in order to successfully implement certain political goals or values (Truman, 33). They usually, but not always, are formally organized. The relation between interest groups and government and society is an affirmative one, although groups may at times employ destructive methods in order to accomplish their goals. The existing social order is accepted by interest groups, and governmental power and its institutions are utilized to attain advantages, protect members, and to fight political opponents. As you see they all relate to political decision making, political goals, and organization of people. In Washington DC there are nearly seven thousand organizations that are represented by politics. These interest groups are also referred to as Lobby’s or Lobbyists. The textbook we use gives the opinion that interest groups are a group of people with shared ideas and attitudes who attempt to influence public policy. The Economic Interest Group is Certainly the largest category, economic interest groups include organizations that represent big business, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), as well as (1) big labor — the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization...
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...Didn’t want to be seen as a monarch Name an important negative event that occurred during his presidency: He didn’t even want to become president. Date of Birth: February 2, 1732 Place of Birth: Pope’s Creek, Virginia Education: Elementary school Religion: Episcopalian Profession before becoming President: Soldier, planter Profession before entering politics: Soldier, planter Number / Names of wives and children: Married Martha Dandridge Custis. No children President: Abraham Lincoln President number: 16 Dates in office: 1861-1865 Political party affiliation: Whig, republican Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson Name an important positive event that occurred during his presidency: Lincoln responds by promising to execute one Confederate soldier for each black killed. Name an important negative event that occurred during his presidency: His decision to go to war. Date of Birth: February 12, 1809 Place of Birth: Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky Education: taught himself law Religion; No formal affiliation Profession before becoming President: Politician Profession before entering politics: Lawyer Number / Names of wives and children: His wife was Mary Todd, They got married Nov. 4, 1842 and had 4 children. Robert, William, Edward, and Thomas. President: Franklin D. Roosevelt President number: 32 Dates in office:1933-1945 Political party affiliation: Democrat Vice President: John N. Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry Truman Name an...
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...Madison Tenenbaum Period 3 Political socialization is a lifelong process by which people form their ideas about politics and acquire political values. The family, educational system, peer groups, and the mass media all play a role. While family and school are important early in life, what our peers think and what we read in the newspaper and see on television have more influence on our political attitudes as adults. As a 17 year old, I would say that my political socialization might differ from the norm. Both my mother and father are Republicans, but I feel as if I would consider myself a Libertarian. I don’t have a first political memory, because I feel like I never heard my parents talk about politics. It was like there was a whole other world that I have just discovered this year in class. As for political tolerance, I feel as if this country should have order, but still able to have some freedom under certain circumstances. There should be certain lines that one can not cross to be able to keep society in order, otherwise the country would be too chaotic. In my opinion, I don’t agree with having a two party system. The fact that there is one, they are both more worried about the party interest instead of what the people actually want. Most people feel like they have to vote for either a democrat or a republican, and while doing that they lose sight in their political interest. I believe that as one person, my vote will matter as far as the final outcome...
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...George Washington’s “Farewell Address” George Washington wrote a farewell speech in 1796, marking the retirement of his leadership of the United States of America. He published his goodbye, titled his “Farewell Address,” in many papers. The long, revised copy of his speech, originally intended to be read at the end of his first term, tells of how he wanted to retire four years previous, but how he had been begged to stay on. He states that he never considered himself to be worthy of leading the country, and then goes on to give his thoughts and opinions of many matters in the government. Looking at the way he had led the country for the previous eight years, and the 45 he had given to serving it, should only make this country want to heed his warnings and advice. George Washington was a great man, with the country’s best interest at heart and mind, and only gave his honest opinion regarding many subjects such as the importance of national union and the constitution. He also spoke of the evils and dangers of political parties and debt, and stressed the importance of religion and morality in our government. In all honesty, no man ever left a more dignified farewell. Many people fought and died to make this country a nation; a whole....
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