Corporate Politics in Perspective

Politics are unavoidable for many reasons like how people crave for power and there are not enough resources to go around. Thus people create politics in order to achieve what they want.

Being aware of this situation which occurs in every organisation, the workshop was carefully designed to help students like myself who will encounter these acitivities in the future to stay afloat and not be at a loss of how to handle these sticky situations. Some examples include maintaining good relationships with the important people inside and outside the organisation who may provide some form of assistance to you in the course of your career and the 'dangers' of office romance. It had never occurred to me before that office romance could affect work so drastically. It highlighted the possible consquences like unequal treatment, conflicts of interests and a bad ending of the relationship could even result in misuse of power. I realised that diving into an office environment without the 'survival kit of office politics' could result in a very hostile work environment. Working then, would definitely not be enjoyable.

this tutorial session, we were provided with a 'Measuring Your Political Tendencies' quiz, this made the session more interesting rather than the usual dry tutorial sessions which could sometimes lull you to sleep. I had a low score on this quiz which probably meant I would most likely not be the group of people who would spark off politics within the office which is quite a relief for me.

The most important part of this workshop to me is 'Defending yourself against unfair politics'. Though it is usually not common but i believe like the workshop said 'This world is not ideal', there would definitely be people out there who would resort to unscrupulous methods to sabotage people to achieve what they want, thus it is beneficial to know how to handle them in case they do happen.