The inevitability of organisational politics: A review of literature

Abstract

This article looks at the reasons as to why organisational politics is practiced everywhere. How managerial employees influence others and manipulate their power bases. It determines, therefore, that using influence is the core of management activity. It explores the least and most popularly used tactics for influencing superiors and subordinates. Given that the majority of members of modern organizations recognize and acknowledge that they are, in essence, political systems, they employ various political tactics to more successfully seize power.