15 Politics, Ethics and Trust
New employees are normally given a physical or electronic handbook or welcome pack detailing organisational procedures, processes and the hierarchy of names, contact numbers and locations with which they need to be familiar. But if the new employee asked for advice on how to succeed in the business, there would probably be no mention of this handbook. Instead, if information were forthcoming at all, it would focus on what they must do, what they must not do and what they can get away with; a verbal map of the organisation’s social jungle, the relationships and the alliances, who was trustworthy and who had power. In short, organisational politics. But politics in organisations is ...
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