Politics – The Illegitimate Discipline

Abstract

Political behaviour and the games played within organisational structures are devastating to its resources. Politics emerges as a result of executive management′s lack of decisiveness and control in the execution of the basic management functions of planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling the organisation′s resources. Organisations with no policies or policies with no enforcement are a haven for political participants who put the organisations′ resources at risk. In this context political emergence, its consequences, and how politics may be kept to a negligible level are explored.

Citation

Thompkins, J.M. (1990), "Politics – The Illegitimate Discipline", Management Decision, Vol. 28 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749010000416