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• People are often scared of politics at workplaces. They believe people at
higher positions and a power try to cheat them in one way or other.

• The extent of power and politics in an organisation affects the behaviour of
employees and in the long run, determines the success of the firm. It can
affect the level of their job satisfaction , their morale, and their productivity.
• In organisations, it is seen that people try to misuse their power acquired
through position and manipulate the employees in various ways.
• In offices, power can be used for politics in various ways like forming of
groups, withholding important information, passing wrong information ,
complaining , attacking etc.
• Convincing labourers to form unions , creating bottlenecks for somebody’s
promotion etc are all forms of office power and politics.

How can it be checked?
• Clear-cut policies and a well-defined chain of command for simple
organisational structure.
• Flexibility in communication should be ensured and everybody should have a
say in important decisions.
• The leaders should not engage in any kind of biased behaviour against
employees.
• A system of checks and balances should be developed.

Power and politics in the country

• In every country, there are leaders that possess power. Again, some leaders
use their power for the development of the nation while others just use it for
politics.
• Blaming other party leaders, indulging in corruption, harassment of people,
influencing vote banks etc are all forms of misuse of power for politics
How can power and politics be used effectively?

• Power and politics can be used positively as well to achieve the required
goals.

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