Workplace Politics: Hidden Rules In Office Buildings

Most people think office politics is bad for businesses.

Nothing is more real than this idea.

Whether you are a chief executive, a salesperson, or a summer internship, office politics is an integral part of things.

First of all, let's look at four steps of office politics that do not depend on deception or deception (also known as "dirty politics", which is unfavourable to enterprises).

Playing politics involves balancing the needs of many people so that they can come together and make decisions.

There are four general needs in business:

1. personal needs reflect personal character and what the person expects or wants to get from his work experience, such as emphasis, reward, challenge, entertainment and sexual gratification.

2. career demands include personal plans that meet individual needs through changing jobs and different companies.

Career needs come from personal needs.

For example, the focus of attention is personal needs, and in order to become the focus of attention, the need to become a "programming supervisor" is occupation demand.

3. job demands include personal needs to advance their career needs and personal needs.

For example, in order to make the title of "programming supervisor" meaningful, there must be programmed staff to let him lead.

4. organizational needs are the essence of individual work needs within a group.

For example, in order to become a "program supervisor" and some employees who have written procedures to let them lead, the organization may need a new computer and a new software for programmers to write programs.

Once you understand your needs (all levels of needs) and the needs of other stakeholders, you are ready to play politics.

Office politics includes making deals, and sometimes you have to support and satisfy other people's needs in exchange for that person's support for meeting your needs.

Theoretically, this is a very simple concept, but in fact there are many changes in it.

Kind of like sex.

For example, if you have a colleague who wants to be a "program manager" and you want to be a "quality control manager", you will tell this colleague: "if you support my idea of becoming a quality control manager, I will support your idea of becoming a program manager."

As you can see, the key to making the alliance effective is 1) find out what you want, 2) find out what other people want and 3) agree to achieve the goal together.

This time I will avoid using sex analogy.

We must be very careful in establishing alliances.

The general rule is that you want to build alliances with people you can trust, who will take on their side business and do the right thing for the rest of the company.

For example, you may not want to involve raising a thoroughly idiot in a "program manager" paction, or at least if you want your company to succeed.

However, if everything is taken into consideration, whether it is Jack or Gil who is not promoted, it is no problem to make Jack out of the deal with Gil.

And if you are sure that Gil is a better choice, it will be much better.

In addition to the alliance, politics also includes less formal favours.

This is a simple concept: you help others, and then in the later days you can let that person do something "to return" to the favor.

Of course, vice versa.

So playing with office politics requires closely following 1: who you owe and how much you owe, 2) who owes you and how much you owe.

Knowing the first point can prevent you from being surprised by the request for meaning.

Knowing the second point allows you to assess whether you have the political right to achieve your goals and whether you need to use politics to achieve your goals.

Trading favours is a very good way to consolidate your alliance. This is hardly necessary.

In addition, some negotiations are usually involved in assessing past benefits and future benefits.

It doesn't matter. Just remember that everyone has his own "record book". This record book may not be consistent with your record book 100%.

Step 4- unite your people

All these efforts will have an impact when making decisions.

Your goal is to ensure that everyone can support your preferred decisions by using your alliances and beneficial pactions.

For example, suppose your company wants to make a choice between two software vendors, and you confirm that supplier "A" is the right choice, but you realize that some misguided fools who work with you think that supplier "B" is a better choice.

When deciding on which supplier to hire a conference, you want your pre arranged person to agree with you as much as possible in the conference room negotiating table, that is, agree to employ the supplier's idea of "A".

Some people may think that such a decision should be based on the quality of each supplier's product.

Maybe so, but this is not the way the world operates.

Office politics ensures that people can make the right decisions, even on wrong grounds.

And this is better than making the wrong decision based on the right reasons.

Am I right?

When it comes to "office politics", if your first reaction is frown, your face is helpless, even the corners of your mouth are very disdain, that's not very good.

Because this means that in the workplace, you lack a key E Q skill -- political consciousness.

According to a E Q research authority, this ability often determines a person's work achievement.

Unfortunately, such important skills are not learned in schools.

Therefore, just after leaving school, people who enter the workplace suddenly, though possessed of skills, are always exhausted, scarred and unresponsive by their complicated political activities.

It is really tragic that "unearned ambition is the first thing to die".

However, you are smart enough to practice well and become a highly politically sensitive E Q player so that you can play with your heart and be happy and successful.