Is Workplace Politics destroying your Office Culture?

Politics is an integral part of our lives, and our workplace (sadly) isn’t an exception. Most people you meet in the professional sphere of life may advise you to blatantly ignore it, or simply walk out of an organization that knowingly or unknowingly encourages office politics.

But, should you ignore it? should you stop working at such organizations? Or, can you trace your own way through it?

Here’s a small yet important piece of information- Nothing Good ever comes out of Office Politics.

So, how does it affect Office Culture?

•          Affects internal work structure of an organization

•          Employees are left demotivated as they do not get their due recognition due to excessive office politics

•          Excessive stress among employees to outperform

•          A sharp decline in job satisfaction and low employee retention rate

Are you looking for a way to get rid of this workplace evil??

•          Align your organizational goals

Each and every employee enters a company with their very own objectives, goals, and plans. Whenever such very different individuals meet up, there is going to be some degree of giving and taking, which in the long run might prompt some type of office politics. Adjusting the goals of your organization to those of your employees prompts a feeling of unity among them. Finding a common ground between all your employees can be more significant and employees resort to critical thinking rather than sabotaging each other through political tricks.

•          Ensure a fair working environment

Fair work culture is a great move towards a politics-free workplace. All organization rules and arrangements ought to be applied similarly to everybody, from the board to staff in the most entry-level positions. This lessens vagueness and miscommunication. A hierarchical work structure should be eliminated to not allow a decent organizational culture to get obfuscated by workplace politics. On the off chance that an organization doesn't guarantee this, workers will figure out the loopholes in the organization's system. By being fair, an organization will help build trust among your employees regardless of their job profiles, and workplace politics will disappear.

Look out for what your employees are dealing with and keep tabs on their development to be certain you are really compensating the individual who does the work. Understanding the commitments of your employees can assist you with giving better criticism and appreciation.

•          Selective Hiring

Stay headstrong about the organizational culture you have and need to keep up with when you recruit. Many organizations begin with an extraordinary office culture and lose it while recruiting freshers who turn the workplace into a politically inappropriate environment.

At the point when negative workplace politics start to capture in the work environment, your company can suffer (a lot). Workplace politics can be the cause of serious rifts between associates, bosses, and subordinates, which may establish a strained, stressful and problematic workplace; and completely destroy company morale. Uproot this absolute evil before it rots your organisation!!