Organizational Politics Literature Review

The concept of organizational politics started getting of academicians and practitioners in the last decade. The body of literature on organizational politics is expanding but still the research remains distorted with respect to theory and research methodologies adopted. Despite a lot of empirical data conceptual vagueness still exist. Organizational politics is proved to be fact of life (Vigoda-Gadot, 2001a). Regardless of the widespread acceptance of presence of organizational politics proved by empirical research this aspect of life at workplace remained polemic. Before 1970s organizational politics was considered was considered as verboten in the field of management.

Organizational politics started getting growing attention when the concept

The literature on organizational politics was systematically reviewed to discover how academicians and practitioners have defined and examined organizational politics in existing literature. It is better to summarize at first how organizational politics is defined by researchers in management, to achieve the objective of conceptual

This lack of consensus is also an indication of ongoing debate over the issue of organizational politics (Vigoda-Gadot & Drory, 2006). The interchangeable use of identical terms has made research in the field of organizational politics fragmented. Therefore, some conceptual ambiguities are necessary to be removed before starting report on literature reviewed. Organizational politics is defined as the existence of multiple interests and incompatible goals, beyond the goals of organization, and the influence techniques used to defend them. Whereas political behavior means observable of individual while pursuing their goals. These political behaviors are nominated in the field of management as political