I am the victim of the office politics out here what should do? If this is the question eating your mind then have a look at the following situation or happenings that can help you recover: It’s normal human reaction for survival in the wild, back in the prehistoric days when we were still hunter-gatherers. The way to get out of this is not to fight with the person, but should be a cool clam issue. By learning to steer the discussion in this direction, you will learn to disengage from petty differences and position yourself as someone who is interested in getting things done. Your boss will also come to appreciate you as someone who is mature, strategic and can be entrusted with bigger responsibilities. Often we don’t have control over issues not under your own control; hence you become the victim of it but nevertheless, even if you have lesser control over the situation you can efficiently however it’s really uncommon to find corporate policies, client demands or boss mandates which affects your personal interests. Instead of feeling victimized and angry about the situation, focus on the things that you can do to influence the situation – your circle of influence. Sometimes it does help you to solve or overcome the feeling truly. You might sometimes find your selves at odd when there are two entities those are considered as power figures at office at such situation. Adhere to objectivity in any case, this helps to reduce the intensity of point of interaction wherein either you are directly or indirectly involved. Objectivity builds trust among the team mates and features your positive and mature image in front of people. Even if you plan Tit for Tat, don’t go for that attempt, because even a single insult or bad comment gets stuck in mind. Hence must learn to communicate persuasively as well as develop an assertive style, backed with solid facts and examples, to focus attention on your ideas and proposals. What can you do when you feel that your colleague attempts to denigrate your character?
First, carefully weigh the unpleasant possibility that your assumptions about the person are false.
Make sure it’s not you that’s the problem.
If you’re unsure, consult with a trusted colleague or mentor.
Should you then feel certain that you’re in the right, talk to your boss in private about the issue?
The normal causes of office politics could be possibly because of the following reasons:
Scarcity of Resources
Extremely Competitive Work Environment
An inordinate desire to advance in an organization
Abuse of power to manipulate others
Subjective performance standards
Unclear job definitions
Thinking most of the time when answering
If you are keenly interested in solving queries by self, try and network with people in both the ways horizontally as well vertically, proving you unbiased. Have a mentor for you who can guide you in your process of dealing and getting over such games. Come up with something that will is humorous as well sort of fun at workplace. Obviously in such circumstances there are situations wherein there is lot of things that you might like to discuss with your cronies but you are not comfortable in doing so. When the point comes of nurturing relations you need to imbibe in yourself this quality because more you get done with this more will be the fun at office. To win at this ugly political game, you need to play your good cards as well; I mean you need to tell in what you have accomplished, get know of few questions of the office culture like how is the risk handled, how much risk is tolerated, how are the decisions made, get to known of the personal track record and such relative questions. If you deny the 'bad politics' that may be going on around you, and avoid dealing with them, you may needlessly suffer whilst others take unfair advantage. And if you avoid practicing 'good politics', you miss the opportunities to properly further your own interests, and those of your team and your cause. However you can say so that wherever you go politics is unavoidable, be it your workplace, college, school etc. Being human you need to deal with all the aspects nature has given then may it be manmade.
At the end would like to say whatever problems you deal in, what you feel is politics going against you and affecting your productivity, and to greatest extent if you decide to leave the organization make sure you communicate the details or information about the same to the HR during the exit interview, this isn’t of that help for you I guess but it will prove beneficial for the company at least, so that others don’t suffer from the same that you did and took such decision. This will help enhance the culture of the organization since the bad buddies will get good setback from the HR itself. Further if you are thinking to avoid the same please don’t since this is just gonna help your colleagues or would be colleagues at work.