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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:
  1. Workplace politics is characterised by power struggles, backroom deals, poor communication, disagreements, personality clashes and turf battles.
  2. It can cause lost productivity and good employees to leave.
  3. The recommended strategy to escape the politics is to say: ‘let’s continue this tomorrow.’

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