Office politics. No way to TOTALLY avoid them?

Well, in the first place we must understand that politics involve people and politics is not only confined to running a country. It is the basic understanding of human behaviour. In an office for instance, office politics always top the agenda and it is how you manoeuvre yourself to get out of an office politics. If one has to spend all of one's time worrying about whether a work is going to please everybody, then there is no way that any sort of creative work can be done because the atmosphere is too oppressive. We are all suppose to work for the betterment of an organization which pays our monthly salary but if we are often involved in petty office squabbles we are only exposing the type of mentality we have and being disrespectful of one another.Everybody needs to work in a free and unpressured environment. Since I have left employment, I have no sweet bitter memories to share with you but can tell you that keeping silence and only do your work assigned to you, office politics will not create a strong impact in your life. It is just something that happens everyday of life. Without one the office will be a dull place to work. Office politics spice up the cold environment in an office.

This is a total mind set, when you are at work you have to play the game. It is the only way to get ahead and stay on the inside. Think of your job like being a person on a reality TV show like Survivor, the goal is to get the most money for you and must do whatever that takes. If you try to stay out of the fray there is no glory, remember a detail on each person, when you seethem ask about it, they will think you care. The more you can let everyone thin you care about them. The more you will be tuned inot the grid of being an important team member, even if you know it is only to get or stay ahead.

lol =D It's really unavoidable, be it where u are.. Because there are always things whereby one cant be completing on their own but needing the help of others too.. When that happens, everybody just wants some benefits for helping, and even advantages.. After all, all man are for themselves.. ANd espeically in office, there are always the 'old bird or new bird' system, and that's the real start of politics.. Because being a rookie, one cant afford to offend anybody, and thus overtime, we are automatically embroiled into it, without realising it.. UNless one is very good, and very much independant, if not, the chance is always there for one to fall into it..

Politics exist everywhere.. not only office have politics, not only country have politics, even school where kids went for education have politics too. as long as there is a community, there is human, there is politics. Why avoid? Politics is not exactly harmful though, it trains you how to be street-wise and smart, coping and handling with people, as well as situation in a diplomatically way. It will still come to you no matter how much you would like to avoid it. You only want a stable job, get your job done, but others may see you as someone easy to make used to get what they need or want. In office, all kinds of people exist, there is no friend in office. that's why we are known as colleagues, not friends when we introduced them to people. =D, make sense? Learn Politics, Accept Politics, Use Politics!

if you want to get rid of this just take an AK-47 and kill the bloody bas----s. this is all they deserve. Thats how we gonna make them work like they should.

it's big deal for me, i had worked four years,i thought this question for long time. last year i quited, yes, i did, i am tired. i believe in simple rules, so i can't understand the office politics, i don't know the right line i should stand in,that's puzzled me. frankly speaking,i don't know how to avoid.

Office politics are so strong that it can ruin your name and makes you lost your job. Better avoid getting involve and if it is unavoidable always stay on the safer side. Yes, it is unavoidable in a way since it is part of the life cycle of a worker already. Just learn to deal with it properly.

Office politics is a given thing . we can never live without it . i mean all offices has that and no matter what you do you cant see or find an office without that. And one way or another sooner or later you will find yourself involve with that even if it is unintentional

You can work to minimize your involvement but there is always someone that wants to pull you in. The important thing in doing this is just that...check yourself at the door and pick it up on the way out. Companies hate this though because they are not getting your full worth. There's a big difference in having a body full of ideas and creativity versus a mindless body in motion. I think that it is possible to do so but with a lot of self control.

I try ti stay away from it. It can be hard to avoid sometimes but I just ignore it most of the time. Little people with little jobs are the worst. I don't care for anyone too much, that I work with anymore

im an HR practitioner and I can tell my past experiences taught me that office politics cannot in any way be removed in an organization...you just have to learn to live with it and learn to swim with the flow...even though you dont like it, you have to live with it coz its really part of our culture regardless of the race or country...Just try to be detached and if you can avoid giving your personal comment so as to avoid further conversation...