Workplace Politics: A Practical Guide for Making Your Experience at Work More Positive, Productive and Pleasant

Think that if you work hard, you will automatically be rewarded for your efforts and get everything you want from your job? Think there’s no politics at your workplace? Think again. From mega corporations to small, family-run businesses, from private sector to government employers, from highly profitable companies to non-profit organizations, and from executive suites to administrative cubicles, every workplace environment brings together groups of individuals who are forced to interact with each other on a regular basis. And whenever there’s interaction between people in an organization, there’s politics. In this new, insightful guide by employment expert Bruce Grossman, you’ll discover just how to navigate the politics of your particular working environment, with the goal of making your workplace experience more positive, productive and pleasant – the 3P Approach. An Indispensable Guide for Anyone Who Works! This book is designed to assist you in making your workplace a place you want to be or, at the very least, a place you no longer dread. You’ll learn, for example, how to understand, motivate and deal with the most difficult workplace personalities (whom we’ve all worked with or for), including the Bully, the Screamer, the Charming Backstabber, the Ruthless individual, the Control Freak and the Nitpicker – and how to turn your interactions with them into more positive and productive encounters. The book offers glimpses of office politics through humorous, lifelike anecdotes that everyone can relate to and understand, and is punctuated throughout with memorable phrases that clearly and easily identify workplace behavior, individuals and scenarios – including the "Eye-of-the-Beholder" Syndrome, the "Chain-of-Yelling" Principle, the "Kiss-and-Make-Up" Syndrome, "Clone" Managers, "Mr. Fast and Loose," the "Dueling E-Mail" Scenario, the "Living and Retelling" Scenario, and more – phrases everyone will be talking about around the water cooler before long! You don’t have to want to climb the corporate ladder, want the corner office or want your boss’ job to benefit from this book – you just have to want to take control of your situation to enjoy a workplace experience that is truly positive, productive, and pleasant!