Office Politics-Wars Guide to the new Employee

Search­ing a new office to work at , is a hard job. You always know from where you are com­ing, but you never know where you are going to be just like a blind date. As a new comer-the new employee in the office play­ground,  you aren’t aware of the dif­fer­ent  office-politics that exists and you don’t know yet which side to choose.

The day has come and you joined the office right before the big war starts. This war raged for some time  but it was hid­den  under the sur­face, but and sooner or later the war will be vis­i­ble to all,

because this sce­nario is very com­mon, the arti­cles will try to help the reader, if he will be in such sit­u­a­tion in the future  how to act.

You have to keep in mind that you were hired by a “fallen” man­ager that hired you but was fired by other manager(S) in the com­pany. In most cases your posi­tion in the com­pany is secured and you don’t have to worry about it, but keep in mind the fol­low­ing things, just to know how to play the office pol­i­tics correctly:

• You have started to fill your posi­tion before the hired boss was fired – this is ok, as you joined the office right in the mid­dle of an office reor­ga­ni­za­tion war “by mis­take”, in that case the win­ning side (higher man­age­ment and other super­vi­sors) will looks at you as a naive.

As long as you’ll give the win­ning side your loy­alty and devo­tion, noth­ing harm will happen ;

Ques­tion: How should you show the guys in charge  that you are loyal them?Should you  storm into their  man­age­ment office and pledge?

A:The new man­age­ment doesn’t expect you to do it,  but they do expect you to show volunteering!

this  para­dox state  we need to clarify :

how can the high direc­tors of the com­pany  trust the deci­sions that were made by a failed supervisor?

Here is then sim­ple answer for that para­dox;  when an office goes through reor­ga­ni­za­tion, A fallen man­ager is replaced  not just by one employee but rather by a team; one man­ager can’t makes the change by him­self., and he its hard to makes strate­gies moves like alone. He Will use the assis­tance of other employ­ees from his net­work­ing in the office, to make the attack. if you ever be that man­ager, remem­ber that these mem­bers of the rev­o­lu­tion are wait­ing to be paid by you due to the fact they sup­ported yet. the are no free meals.

as the time goes by and the new man­ager gains more power, it will be the trig­ger for a new office con­flicts and a new reor­ga­ni­za­tion will start. The above described sce­nario repeats itself over and over again until there will be wide hier­ar­chy in the office man­age­ment and from this point all the reor­ga­ni­za­tion will be kept in the higher man­age­ment only.

• You have started to fill your posi­tion after the hired boss was fired. You are con­sid­ered by oth­ers to be the last deci­sion that has been made by a failed man­ager. There is no need to worry as the other man­agers has two per­spec­tive of exam­i­na­tion in this case:

1. Cur­rent man­agers respect pre­vi­ous deci­sions that were made
2. As a new­comer you are auto­mat­i­cally added to the new man­age­ment team due to reorganization.

The only sit­u­a­tion that you have to be aware of is the uncer­tainty by the man­age­ment part – this mostly will be reflect­ing as delay in accept­ing new deci­sions. In case you are here; give the higher man­age­ment some time to think about it before you’ll con­tinue search­ing a new office.

As a new player in the office sur­vivor game, no one will have a word against you by choos­ing to go with the higher man­age­ment deci­sion, as you are sim­ply new and don’t have part in deci­sions that have been made– Remem­ber this war wasn’t t yours.

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