How to manage Political Behaviour in an organisation

Management Political Behaviour

It is not possible to eliminate political behavior in the organization in totality. But one can adopt certain measures through which the dysfunctional component of political behavior can be minimized. The following measures may be adopted to manage political behavior effectively and in the interest of the organization:

  1. Clarity of roles: It is the responsibility of the management to define the roles and authority of organizational members in a clear and unambiguous manner. Such an attempt of defining roles, responsibilities, authority and accountability clearly helps in minimizing favouritism and nepotism in the organization.
  2. Ethical role model: Top managers should work positively and ethically, so that they serve as a role model to other employees in the organization. If people at senior positions engage themselves in playing political games, it is bound to convey a wrong message to the subordinates and creates an un healthy culture in the organization where people perceive that such kind of behaviour is acceptable. They further promote such environment and get trapped in an unending vicious circle.
  3. Transparent appraisal system: To ensure stable and positive environment, which is free from all sort of dysfunctional politics, organizations must ensure sound and transparent performance appraisal mechanisms. The scope of bias in performance appraisal mechanism should be minimised. They also need to ensure that performance should be the only basis of rewards like increments, promotions etc.
  4. Fair distribution of resources: Organization must adopt a systematic approach for the allocation of resources within the organization. They need to give due concern especially when the resources are scarce in nature. This would restrict the dysfunctional aspect of politics in the organization.
  5. Effective communication: Restrictions and barriers in communication develop a land for dysfunctional political behaviour in the organization. To ensure smooth functionality, organization must ensure a two-way communication channel. The efforts should also be made to eliminate any sort of barriers to communication. There should be free flow of information in the organization.
  6. Aspiration of employees: Organization must be aware of the perception of their employees on different issues. Management should be responsive to the needs and aspirations of their employees so that they can achieve a direct sync between the individual needs and the organizational needs.

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