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Chapter 8: Organizational Politics

The Political Style Grid uses the three value and three action orientations to help you place yourself- or a colleague – on the matrix. The horizontal dimension designates the value orientation and moves from ‘negative’ to ‘neutral’ to ‘positive’. The vertical dimension indicates that the action orientation in increasing order from ‘responds’ to ‘predicts’ to ‘initiates’.

Click here to access the Political Style Grid.

Politically active managers can use organization politics for good or bad. Any working definition of organization politics should contain these possibilities. Politics in organizations is typically boiled down to self-interest and how it plays out in the organization.

Click here to view the Interest Grid. 

You may also find a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for working with your valued HR Generalist partners.

Click here to view a sample SLA in working for HRGs.

 

 

 

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