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The politics within the workplace tends to be a major cause of employee dissatisfaction, but fortunately this can be easily neutralised.Summary
KEY POINTS:
- Workplace politics is characterised by power struggles, backroom deals, poor communication, disagreements, personality clashes and turf battles.
- It can cause lost productivity and good employees to leave.
- The recommended strategy to escape the politics is to say: ‘let’s continue this tomorrow.’