Management veteran R. Devarajan writes that ‘Modern day managers need to have a high degree of ‘Political Savvy''. That brings us to this related issue.
The definitions of ‘office politics' are many. Let us broadly assume that it stands for applying strategies that would not be among best practices in management journals; perhaps a not-so- transparent means to an individual or organisational objective.
Some acknowledge that ‘constructive office politics' is needed when ‘playing by the book' doesn't beget desired results.
Another school of thought believes that use of office politics as a means to engineer change is flawed because it circumvents the system and instead invents and innovates in loopholes to achieve change — rather than engineer improvements in systems that can sustain change.
Should office politics be used as a tool for improvement? Why?
Write in, in less than 200 words, before February 24. The best responses will get published.
Keywords: modern day managers, Political Savvy